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Links to web sites and content relevant to payphones and phone booths.
United States Payphone Service Providers, Active and Inactive
Suppliers of Payphones and Payphone Parts
- Alliance Payphone
"A payphone will be installed at no cost to the location when call volume is enough to reach minimum revenue levels. We will visit your location to
determine if your business qualifies for a payphone at no cost to your company."
- Enclosures Inc.
"Enclosures Inc. is a manufacturer of phone Enclosures, Pedestals, and Accessories that complete the aesthetic
appearance of your payphone location."
- Fortec
"Since 1979 Fortec has been the benchmark in the ever changing market of enclosures and accessories for the
telecommunications industry. "
- Function
"Function is the world's largest manufacturer of payphones. Over the years, we have transformed traditional dingy phone booths into multimedia kiosks that are revolutionizing the way we function today."
- Independent Enclosures
"Fabricators of Pedestals, Enclosures and Accessories for the Payphone Industry"
- Midwest Payphone Supply
"Nation's #1 Supplier. We Beat Any Competitor Price & Warranty on All Brands. Guaranteed!"
- Myrmidon Corp.
"In 2003, Myrmidon added the PBG product line which includes new telephone enclosures, airport solutions, and custom kiosks."
- North Atlantic, Inc.
Supplier of Payphones, Payphone Parts, Air Machines, and Air Machine Parts
- Pacific Telemanagement Services (PTS)
"PTS has been in the business of installing and maintaining payphones since 1985. Today PTS operates over 40,000
payphones nationwide."
- Payphone.com (G-Tel Enterprises)
- The Payphone Company
"The Payphone Company is a leader in the telecommunications industry of Southern California and
nationwide."
- PayphoneHelp.com
"The people at PayphoneHelp.Com� have helped customers with payphones, payphone mounting hardware, and pay phone support since
1989."
My Organization Has Served over 32 years: Local and State Governments, Public and Private Schools, Fast Food Chain Restaurants, Doctor's Offices, Restaurants, Taverns, Grocers, Auto Repair Shops, Swim Clubs,
Health Spas, Dance Studios, Camping Grounds, Hotels and Motels, Hospitals, Airport Lounges, Churches and Synagogues, Non-Profit Associations, Beauty Salons, Barber
Shops, Lawyers Offices, Bakeries, Service Stations, Theatrical Industry, Billiard Parlors and Trucking Industry, etc..
- PBG Inc. (Acquired by Myrmidon Corp.)
- Protel
"In 2003, Myrmidon added the PBG product line which includes new telephone enclosures, airport
solutions, and custom kiosks."
- Phoneco, Inc.
"An important service we offer is phone restoration and repair. We have literally repaired hundreds of phones for grateful customers. For
those who'd rather work on phones themselves we have a full line of parts (cords, mouthpieces, networks, bells, housing, etc.) for phone repair."
- Robin Technologies
"Robin provides payphones and payphone service to many local governments and agencies including Arlington County, City of Gaithersburg and the National Institutes of Health"
- Telecom Products, Inc.
"Currently TPI is manufacturing various payphone enclosures popular in the payphone industry."
- Triad Inc.
Telephone Repair Innovations and Development Inc.
- Visiontek Wireless Payphones
Visiontek is India's leading standardized and branded payphones manufacturing company with over 1 million payphones sold across India and other countries.
- Follow the Payphone Project on Twitter @payphonenews
January, 2013: The Payphone Project is finally on Twitter!
Follow @payphonenews for interesting links related to payphones and the changing world of public telephony.
- Payphone Pictures at PayphonePictures.com
It's a spinoff of the Payphone Project, with pictures of payphones from all 7 continents,
payphone sounds, and payphones seen in movies,
television, and print advertisements.
- Call Shops in
Brussels, Belgium
This photo series shows that public telephony is alive and well in Brussels.
- The Museum of Lost Interactions
This online museum documents forgotten communications and entertainment media, including the Richophone, a turn
of the century multi-player game which employed Richophone booths. Don't miss the entertaining video showing a Richophone game contestant.
- Jenny L Chowdhury: The Cell Atlantic CellBooth
"Talking on the phone is no longer a private exchange. What if you could carry a phone booth with you and set it up when you needed to converse in private?"
Also, check out Jenny Chowdhury's Popularity Dialer, a free service which promises to make you "look extra important or
popular on
that hot date."
- Cellibacy?
Could you survive 60 days without a cell phone? Amy Borkowsky gives it a try by relying on payphones, landlines, and voicemail. Oh, and wrist watches! Lots of 'em!
- "I'm a lonely computer
and I need to talk to someone."
"For one week a computer telemarketing device makes hourly calls to selected pay telephones, engages whoever answers in conversations about life in the city, and digitally
stores the conversations."
Read about Stephen Wilson's 1992 installation "Is Anyone There? A Voice Activated Tour of San
Francisco Via its Pay Telephones, and watch a Quicktime Video (5.5mb) of the work's documentation.
- MacAllister Stone: You must remember this...
"My personal experiences with payphones over the years tend toward the middle-of-the-night, damn-I'm-in-a-fix variety. You know the kind I mean, right? Your car broke down
and you've just hiked along the shoulder of some lonely two-lane highway, in the dark. You find a roadhouse with a payphone in the back, through the smoke and past the
pooltables."
- Telephone Art Piece (2000) by William Wires
"Doodling is an acceptable activity while on the telephone, as opposed to during person to person communication. The messages scratched into the plexiglass reveal awakened
wishes and frustrations when the telephone remains the only immediate source of communication. Are the inhibited communicative aspects of telephone use compensated through
creative doodling?"
- UK Kiosks, Payphones, and Phone Boxes
A large collection of photos of British phone booths, kiosks, payphone and coin-boxes.
- Robert Lazzarini's "payphone," 2002
"payphone is the largest
work to date in Robert Lazzarini's sculptures of compound distortions.
Expanding to a height of 9 feet, the object engages the viewer on a figural
scale. The increase in size projects an increased spatial tension."
- Some Santa Fe Phone Booths
An interesting photo set, maintained by Evan Werkema.
"Santa Fe has used several different types of phone booths over the years. Wooden phone booths virtually disappeared along the Santa Fe in the west in the 1980's. The
photos show a few of the booths that existed in New Mexico near the end."
- "Project Payphone," a California State Science Fair project by Ryan Nowicki
"Project Payphone is a social science experiment to determine if and why people answer ringing payphones
in busy, public areas. The objective is to determine if and why people answer ringing public payphones. I believe that people
will only answer if they are attempting to use the phone and find it ringing."
Read the results of Project Payphone (.pdf file)
- PhoneyVents: There is no telephone art
Jim Pallas' PhoneyVents were "...grounded in the premise that the ringing of a telephone bell elicits a state of focused attention in most Americans. The called person is
ready for a communication whose content may be anything. The person has no reasonable expectations: the situation is out of their control."
This site also includes an amusing page of transcripts from interesting answering machine messages. I wrote a
story about answering machine messages many years ago.
- American Public Communications Council
The APCC is the nation's primary representative for public communications providers.
- Phoneco Inc. (Buy refurbished payphones)
- Sally Minker's Payphone Project and her Indoor Sculpture section explore payphones and the telephone in general.
- The Edison - Casket Phone Booth, from Casketfurniture.com
- Search Yahoo for pictures of Payphones and Phone Booths
- Dirty Needles and Pay Phones
- FCC Payphone documents from the Telecommunications Act of 1996
I don't know why I keep this online. I have nothing to do with the payphone industry. The American Public
Communications Council summarizes some of what is contained in this FCC documentation, and how some of its legislation is now moot.
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