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Those old companies went out of business but the government should of stepped in and kept them around for the less fortunate of society.
 
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The telephone lines were removed, most of the power to operate them came from the telephone line. The coin mechanism was very minimal.

The age of cell towers took over.
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i don’t understand how engineers couldn’t just reinvent the wheel and just update the hardware on the emergency phones on the freeways and the payphones, by giving them a card reader (or now a days, a chip reader or wireless tap)
 
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Those old companies went out of business but the government should of stepped in and kept them around for the less fortunate of society.
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Well, Pacific Bell was in charge over all that on the west coast and they ended up becoming AT&T but instead of updating what they had, they came up with a whole new system with personal cell phones and slowly phased out the freeway emergency lines and pay phones.
 
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ATSTD said:
i don’t understand how engineers couldn’t just reinvent the wheel and just update the hardware on the emergency phones on the freeways and the payphones, by giving them a card reader (or now a days, a chip reader or wireless tap)
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They definitely could and probably know exactly how to do it no problem. But that would take away profits from somewhere or somebody high up the food chain.
 
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Well, Pacific Bell was in charge over all that on the west coast and they ended up becoming AT&T but instead of updating what they had, they came up with a whole new system with personal cell phones and slowly phased out the freeway emergency lines and pay phones.
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Yea that was probably a merge or else with AT&T. The corporate world swallows up smaller ones all the time. They become the new corporation.
 
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They definitely could and probably know exactly how to do it no problem. But that would take away profits from somewhere or somebody high up the food chain.
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Who knows. Would make quality of life better, I believe, for some people.
 
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Yea that was probably a merge or else with AT&T. The corporate world swallows up smaller ones all the time. They become the new corporation.
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I think they either merged or just changed their name completely. I think it was in the late 90’s when Nokia was the cell phone king.
 
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