NYC to remove its last payphones; only four phone booths remain

In the days before cellphones became a thing, if you had to make a phone call on the go you had to get some change and head over to a payphone. No U.S. city is more connected to payphones than the city of New York. Since 2007 (the year that Apple unveiled the iPhone), the number of payphones in the U.S. declined by 48%. And as smartphone use rose sharply, payphones and phone booths both were taken down. In 2016, New York City started replacing some of them with .

As of 2018, there were 1,700 of these kiosks in the city using fiber optics to deliver Wi-Fi at a rate ...

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