Tag: pay phones
RIP pay phones! On October 15, the contract with franchisees that maintain all of NYC’s 9,670 pay phones will expire. While there’s still no official decision about what will happen next month, it’s probably safe to say the odds of franchisees renewing their contracts are much smaller than even a few years ago. In 2013, DoITT […]
According to city records, 35% of New York’s 8,894 public phones are broken. The Department of Information Technology and Telecommunications has stated that Verizon may be in part at fault for the mass failure, as the company is largely responsible for repair of public phones and hasn’t stepped up to fix them in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy. Despite their state […]
