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09-11-2009, 07:24 AM
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| Payphones now 50 cents!
Just a heads up for the next time you forget your cell phone at home. As of last week, the cost of a local call on a Bell Canada payphone is 50 cents. I think it’s safe to assume that other payphone companies will follow.
It’s a been a long time coming — not only has there not been an increase in payphone costs since 1981 (back then they were a dime) but competition from mobile phones has pretty much rendered the standard payphone obsolete. They’re really only there for the small percentage of the population that hasn’t gone cellular yet and for when the rest of us forget our mobile devices on the charger at home.
In a different age I could see a lot of people getting bent out of shape about this, but really - does anyone care that the cost of a phone call has doubled? http://smartcanucks.ca/payphones-now-50-cents/
Saw this on the news last night, does anyone use a payphone anymore? phone companies are losing revenue so they're jacking it up to 50 cents 
IMO this will make them lose even more revenue, greedy bitches!
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09-11-2009, 07:27 AM
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#2 | | F**K YOUR HEAD
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LOL people still use payphones?
I'd go into a bell store and use their palm pre demo and make LD phone calls for free instead
That's what i do when i'm in the states, GOD I'M CHEAP!!!
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09-11-2009, 07:28 AM
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Are there any payphone left anywhere besides the airport?
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09-11-2009, 07:30 AM
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maybe its just me, but i hardly see any pay phone other than skytrain/bus stations or in the mall now.
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09-11-2009, 07:35 AM
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#5 | | Willing to sell a family member for a few minutes on RS
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Originally Posted by silk  maybe its just me, but i hardly see any pay phone other than skytrain/bus stations or in the mall now. | they said on the news that they used to have 38,000 phones province wide but its been decreased to 20,000 now.
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09-11-2009, 08:07 AM
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who the fuck uses the pay phone?
the bums?
crack whores?
escorts???
food take outs?
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09-11-2009, 08:12 AM
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Statistically, with the rise of ownership in cell phones, pay phones have become an antiquity. The cost of operation per pay phone unit is far too significant in terms of maintenance and facilities management. Pay Phones used to generate a lot of money whereas now, everybody including 5 year old Joey, Grandpa Simpson, and the dog next door, have cell phones.
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09-11-2009, 08:48 AM
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09-11-2009, 09:07 AM
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I love watching people in a 100' + car useing a payphone. I wonder what they do for work hahah
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09-11-2009, 09:08 AM
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Originally Posted by silk maybe its just me, but i hardly see any pay phone other than skytrain/bus stations or in the mall now. | hospitals and gas stations. or at least the chevron i was at last week when my telus cell phone service took a crap on me (again) and i had to call from a pay phone instead.
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09-11-2009, 01:26 PM
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I only used pay phones to prank call ppl, its been a while though
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09-11-2009, 01:27 PM
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what is a "payphone"
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09-11-2009, 01:32 PM
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god damn skytrain
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09-11-2009, 01:52 PM
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Originally Posted by hotjoint they said on the news that they used to have 38,000 phones province wide but its been decreased to 20,000 now. | I'm surprised there r still 20,000 of them around. I barely see them anymore.
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09-11-2009, 02:18 PM
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#15 | | Willing to sell body for a few minutes on RS
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the only people i usually see using payphones are dirty bums or 'little gangster kids' who can't afford a cell phone
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09-11-2009, 02:34 PM
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The only place they're really good for is the airport
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09-11-2009, 02:38 PM
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i dont even see them in the malls anymore, which you would think should still have them
but i thought Telus handled all the payphones?
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09-11-2009, 04:07 PM
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Wasnt Bell the first company here to charge incoming texts? Are they not making enough money, or are the gambling that other companies will follow and they can make the most money first.
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09-11-2009, 04:38 PM
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Payphones are good for calling your girlfriends. So you don't get caught.
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09-11-2009, 04:52 PM
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The poor still use pay phones.
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09-11-2009, 04:56 PM
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09-11-2009, 05:23 PM
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hahaha DIS IS FIDDY
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09-11-2009, 06:26 PM
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#23 | | Willing to sell body for a few minutes on RS
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how much was it to use the pay phone before? 25 cents?
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09-11-2009, 08:57 PM
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#24 | | MiX iT Up!
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now bums are gonna be asking for loonies instead of quarters.. crap!
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09-11-2009, 09:39 PM
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Originally Posted by skyxx Payphones are good for calling your girlfriends. So you don't get caught. | a true player has a phone that the wife / gf doesnt even know about
and yes i use payphones time to time when im stuck in public after dark, one of my biggest bad habits is forgetting to bring the phone when i go out, it has drive me to such madness that i even considered buying a manpurse
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