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AT&T To Decommission Pay Phones
oahazmatt writes "According to MarketWatch, AT&T said that its pay phones will be phased out over the next year. A company spokeswoman declined to say how much revenue its pay-phone business generated, but the number is small and declining. 'The first public pay-telephone station was set up in 1878, just two years after Alexander Graham Bell invented the talking device. The first coin-operated pay phone was installed in Hartford, Conn., in 1889. For decades after the pay phone's invention, many Americans relied on them because of the expense and difficulty in obtaining reliable home service. Only after World War II did the telephone become a household necessity.'"
I have no cellphone. I used payphones three time this year, definitely under $4 in total. Your idea forces me to plan ahead and buy $95 + tax of stuff periodically during the course of the year.
AT&T: "Fuck the poor."
"The pay as you go phones are for people who are either A) poor (obviously because they can't manage finances since they bought this)".
I'm poor due to having a rare genetic disease, and my life saving were drained by western medicines useless bullshit before my research led me to find out what my bodies problem was, and then I went to two specialists and my diagnosis was confirmed.
Now I'm poor, I don't like it, life is very difficult being poor, but I somehow get by, and now with the loss of pay phones, "pay as you go" phones are all I can afford.
So... just how is it that you can be so BLIND to other circumstances for people to be poor?
Or are you just an arrogant prick?
If it don't GO... chrome it. ~ Frank Banks