Re:Last public payphone removed from Manhattan streets
by enobrev on Friday May 27, 2022 @07:36PM
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> They don't have handsets, so everyone around can hear both sides of the conversation
If you were in NYC in the early 2000s, you'd generally have one person on every train car on a nextel chirp phone having a conversation for everyone to enjoy.
Re:Last public payphone removed from Manhattan streets
by mike22 on Sunday May 29, 2022 @07:29PM
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Ah, iDEN has gone the way of floppy disks. My old Moto i955 for Boost Mobile (MVNO of Nextel, later carried along with Sprint on CDMA) is a quite heavy and rocky solid paperweight.
If you were in NYC in the early 2000s, you'd generally have one person on every train car on a nextel chirp phone having a conversation for everyone to enjoy.