The Payphone is Back! (well in Rural Vermont at least)

From	Richmond <dnomhcir@gmx.com>
Newsgroups	uk.telecom
Subject	The Payphone is Back! (well in Rural Vermont at least)
Date	2026-05-18 09:53 +0100
Organization	Frantic
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"VoIP Brings Back Old-Fashioned Pay Phones to Rural Vermont Dial zero
for a direct line to the engineerwho installed them

"Remember pay phones? Those relics of telecom’s distant past were once
everywhere—on many busy street corners, in bars and restaurants, even
built into airliners’ seatbacks. Now, an engineer in Vermont is aiming
to give the old-fashioned device some present-day relevance.

"Patrick Schlott, 32, is an electrical engineer by training who works at
the South Burlington, Vt.–based eVTOL maker Beta Technologies. Inspired
in part by the free-phone projects Futel and PhilTel, he’s restored and
installed free-to-use pay phones at over half a dozen locations across
Vermont. "

https://spectrum.ieee.org/payphone-voip

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The Payphone is Back! (well in Rural Vermont at least) Richmond <dnomhcir@gmx.com> - 2026-05-18 09:53 +0100
  Re: The Payphone is Back! (well in Rural Vermont at least) Adrian Caspersz <email@here.invalid> - 2026-05-18 11:02 +0100
    Re: The Payphone is Back! (well in Rural Vermont at least) Richmond <dnomhcir@gmx.com> - 2026-05-18 11:21 +0100

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