The equipment required for this function would be too unwieldy and too costly. This overall investment has been estimated by some in the industry to be $2 billion or more, and would undoubtedly cause the price of a local payphone call to at least double or triple in order to recover the cost of new equipment and technology necessary to provide such capability. Payphone customers are still able to use any combination of quarters, dimes and nickels to place a local call from any public payphone.
But if ya got a credit card...
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Cy once had a payphone give him a whole lot of change. It kept coming. This, back in the dark ages where, if you went somewhere, you had to check in every hour. With the RR. You know, before modern technology annihilated payphones.
