Washington’s Metro, the nation’s second largest rail system, is thinking...
Washington’s Metro, the nation’s second largest rail system, is thinking about chucking its pay phones, transit agency’s spokeswoman Angela Gates told us Tuesday. The subway system’s 10-year contract with Verizon will expire next March and no company has responded to…
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solicitations to bid on the contract, Gates said. “All options are open,” Gates said. The potential phase-out was first reported by The Washington Examiner. Like most big telcos, Verizon has stepped back from pay phones. On Monday, independent pay phone operators filed a petition for rulemaking asking the FCC to make an emergency infusion of universal service fund cash to help rescue pay phones from collapse and to consider whether USF should be used to keep some pay phones around (CD Dec 6 p6).