http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/03/atandt-to-hang-up-its-pay-phones/ Engadget Comments for AT&T to hang up its pay phones http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/03/atandt-to-hang-up-its-pay-phones/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/03/atandt-to-hang-up-its-pay-phones/Dec 3rd 2007 11:07AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/03/atandt-to-hang-up-its-pay-phones/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/03/atandt-to-hang-up-its-pay-phones/Dec 3rd 2007 11:11AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/03/atandt-to-hang-up-its-pay-phones/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/03/atandt-to-hang-up-its-pay-phones/Dec 3rd 2007 11:13AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/03/atandt-to-hang-up-its-pay-phones/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/03/atandt-to-hang-up-its-pay-phones/terrible.]]>Dec 3rd 2007 11:26AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/03/atandt-to-hang-up-its-pay-phones/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/03/atandt-to-hang-up-its-pay-phones/Dec 3rd 2007 11:27AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/03/atandt-to-hang-up-its-pay-phones/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/03/atandt-to-hang-up-its-pay-phones/
All cell phones except the iPhone...]]>Dec 3rd 2007 2:54PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/03/atandt-to-hang-up-its-pay-phones/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/03/atandt-to-hang-up-its-pay-phones/

FFS, who doesnt have a cell phone these days?]]>Dec 3rd 2007 11:09AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/03/atandt-to-hang-up-its-pay-phones/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/03/atandt-to-hang-up-its-pay-phones/
Did you hear that?]]>Dec 3rd 2007 11:11AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/03/atandt-to-hang-up-its-pay-phones/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/03/atandt-to-hang-up-its-pay-phones/Dec 3rd 2007 11:12AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/03/atandt-to-hang-up-its-pay-phones/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/03/atandt-to-hang-up-its-pay-phones/
Right in the same sentence. Wow.]]>Dec 3rd 2007 11:13AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/03/atandt-to-hang-up-its-pay-phones/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/03/atandt-to-hang-up-its-pay-phones/
Probably the same folks that can't afford health care that you had on your list of things that Superman and his friends needed to help fix...]]>Dec 3rd 2007 11:15AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/03/atandt-to-hang-up-its-pay-phones/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/03/atandt-to-hang-up-its-pay-phones/You uhh...need to develop a sense of humor there sir.]]>Dec 3rd 2007 11:16AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/03/atandt-to-hang-up-its-pay-phones/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/03/atandt-to-hang-up-its-pay-phones/
Form of a giant clue!]]>Dec 3rd 2007 11:28AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/03/atandt-to-hang-up-its-pay-phones/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/03/atandt-to-hang-up-its-pay-phones/
It's a bird! It's a plane! It's... a clue!]]>Dec 3rd 2007 12:18PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/03/atandt-to-hang-up-its-pay-phones/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/03/atandt-to-hang-up-its-pay-phones/
Please, no more jokes about the guy. You guys are killing me.

@NHAnimator: That's my new favorite comment. If i knew you in person i'd totally give you cookies AND milk!]]>Dec 3rd 2007 12:19PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/03/atandt-to-hang-up-its-pay-phones/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/03/atandt-to-hang-up-its-pay-phones/Dec 3rd 2007 12:48PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/03/atandt-to-hang-up-its-pay-phones/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/03/atandt-to-hang-up-its-pay-phones/Ain't nothin' free in this world, not even health care. 'Free' just means someone is paying for it some other way and I will be damned if I am paying for YOUR health care. I already gots 4 kids and a wife whose health care I AM paying for.

You want health care go ask your mommy and daddy to pay for it or go get a job and pay for it yourself like a real adult.

(any misspellings or grammitcal erros are intentional and used to illustrate a point or give flava to my brilliant observations)]]>Dec 3rd 2007 1:35PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/03/atandt-to-hang-up-its-pay-phones/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/03/atandt-to-hang-up-its-pay-phones/Dec 7th 2007 5:09AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/03/atandt-to-hang-up-its-pay-phones/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/03/atandt-to-hang-up-its-pay-phones/Dec 3rd 2007 11:18AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/03/atandt-to-hang-up-its-pay-phones/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/03/atandt-to-hang-up-its-pay-phones/Dec 3rd 2007 11:21AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/03/atandt-to-hang-up-its-pay-phones/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/03/atandt-to-hang-up-its-pay-phones/Dec 3rd 2007 11:47AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/03/atandt-to-hang-up-its-pay-phones/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/03/atandt-to-hang-up-its-pay-phones/Dec 3rd 2007 11:51AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/03/atandt-to-hang-up-its-pay-phones/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/03/atandt-to-hang-up-its-pay-phones/
R.I.P. phones.]]>Dec 3rd 2007 11:19AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/03/atandt-to-hang-up-its-pay-phones/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/03/atandt-to-hang-up-its-pay-phones/Dec 3rd 2007 11:23AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/03/atandt-to-hang-up-its-pay-phones/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/03/atandt-to-hang-up-its-pay-phones/Dec 3rd 2007 11:23AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/03/atandt-to-hang-up-its-pay-phones/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/03/atandt-to-hang-up-its-pay-phones/Dec 3rd 2007 11:36AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/03/atandt-to-hang-up-its-pay-phones/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/03/atandt-to-hang-up-its-pay-phones/


Get Smart reference.]]>Dec 3rd 2007 12:12PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/03/atandt-to-hang-up-its-pay-phones/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/03/atandt-to-hang-up-its-pay-phones/Dec 3rd 2007 2:35PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/03/atandt-to-hang-up-its-pay-phones/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/03/atandt-to-hang-up-its-pay-phones/Dec 3rd 2007 11:45AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/03/atandt-to-hang-up-its-pay-phones/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/03/atandt-to-hang-up-its-pay-phones/Dec 3rd 2007 11:51AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/03/atandt-to-hang-up-its-pay-phones/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/03/atandt-to-hang-up-its-pay-phones/Dec 3rd 2007 11:55PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/03/atandt-to-hang-up-its-pay-phones/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/03/atandt-to-hang-up-its-pay-phones/Dec 3rd 2007 12:00PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/03/atandt-to-hang-up-its-pay-phones/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/03/atandt-to-hang-up-its-pay-phones/Dec 3rd 2007 4:08PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/03/atandt-to-hang-up-its-pay-phones/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/03/atandt-to-hang-up-its-pay-phones/Having the option of calling the police as you bleed to death from stab wounds is comforting.]]>Dec 3rd 2007 12:02PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/03/atandt-to-hang-up-its-pay-phones/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/03/atandt-to-hang-up-its-pay-phones/Dec 3rd 2007 12:51PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/03/atandt-to-hang-up-its-pay-phones/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/03/atandt-to-hang-up-its-pay-phones/
Goodbye pay phones...]]>Dec 3rd 2007 12:04PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/03/atandt-to-hang-up-its-pay-phones/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/03/atandt-to-hang-up-its-pay-phones/To be honest I think most survive in the UK cities because they have premium ATM's strapped on the back.]]>Dec 3rd 2007 12:07PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/03/atandt-to-hang-up-its-pay-phones/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/03/atandt-to-hang-up-its-pay-phones/Dec 3rd 2007 12:10PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/03/atandt-to-hang-up-its-pay-phones/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/03/atandt-to-hang-up-its-pay-phones/
If the phone companies don't provide them, I think the local/state/fed government may have too. ]]>Dec 3rd 2007 1:12PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/03/atandt-to-hang-up-its-pay-phones/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/03/atandt-to-hang-up-its-pay-phones/
Yes my company needs to pay better wages for low skilled workers. But until them the pay phone has been a useful link for some of my co-workers.]]>Dec 3rd 2007 4:22PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/03/atandt-to-hang-up-its-pay-phones/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/03/atandt-to-hang-up-its-pay-phones/
HAHA... continue your stupid slide... we all love it.

Cell phones are so 1990s. Get with the times haha!

I never carry a cellphone. It's a hassle. Let's get rid of all the Landlines too, right retards?]]>Dec 3rd 2007 12:22PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/03/atandt-to-hang-up-its-pay-phones/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/03/atandt-to-hang-up-its-pay-phones/Dec 3rd 2007 12:29PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/03/atandt-to-hang-up-its-pay-phones/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/03/atandt-to-hang-up-its-pay-phones/Dec 3rd 2007 12:43PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/03/atandt-to-hang-up-its-pay-phones/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/03/atandt-to-hang-up-its-pay-phones/
In fact there's the solution to the problem. just pass out flyers and make psa's that let people without phones know they can use any (almost) cell phone to make emergency calls without a plan. ]]>Dec 3rd 2007 2:22PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/03/atandt-to-hang-up-its-pay-phones/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/03/atandt-to-hang-up-its-pay-phones/
I have not owned a cell phone in ten years. Regardless how much I do make, cell phone rates are expensive and costly. The companies have convoluted fees and hidden charges. You be getting x-amount of minutes for this and that for y-amount dollars per month, but when you see the bill it's not that exact amount.

Removing payphones is going to be a big mistake unless they can do a couple things:
- Reduce cell phone fees and make them less convoluted and deceptive
- Provide incentives to those that can't afford them]]>Dec 3rd 2007 1:09PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/03/atandt-to-hang-up-its-pay-phones/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/03/atandt-to-hang-up-its-pay-phones/
I understand that there will be some individuals who will be inconvenienced, and there will be situations where the lack of a Payphone service will be an annoyance (or worse), but the only way to keep Payphones alive is through subsidies. And these subsidies will come from either a) your cell-phone bill, or b) your taxes.

So unless pagers come back into fashion, it's goodbye phonebooths. Deal with it.]]>Dec 3rd 2007 4:56PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/03/atandt-to-hang-up-its-pay-phones/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/03/atandt-to-hang-up-its-pay-phones/
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Uh...shut up and go away.]]>Dec 3rd 2007 5:50PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/03/atandt-to-hang-up-its-pay-phones/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/03/atandt-to-hang-up-its-pay-phones/
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Oh man. Not only was this a total display of ignorance, they also dont know The Justice League. HAHA WOW.]]>Dec 3rd 2007 2:13PM