Sentence examples for payphone in from inspiring English sources

All the news at drama school would come via the payphone in the corner of the canteen.

It is quicker and cheaper to sell a poor person a mobile telephone than to install a payphone in a remote village.

A new short film is a tribute to the dwindling curbside payphone in New York City, many of which are now being turned into WiFi kiosks.

Recently, because of last-minute subway routing changes, she ended up in an unfamiliar neighborhood without a working payphone in sight.

With husbands still calling friends from the payphone in the foyer for updates, or nipping across Finchley Road for a glimpse in the windows of Radio Rentals, it took an age for the ushers to get everyone settled.

As I watched Enquirer – wandering through a mock newsroom that allows the audience literally to eavesdrop from desk to desk, hacking the hacks – I remembered filing a story over a payphone in 1998 during the aftermath of the Omagh bomb.

To stay in touch with a scene in which bands proliferated almost daily, you picked up a payphone, stopped in on friends, or heard from other punks at shows – guys like journalist Steve Samiof.

When the previous government licensed Vodacom and its competitor, Mobile Telephone Networks Holdings (MTN), to provide digital service back in 1993, it insisted that they install 30,000 payphones in underserved areas over the following five years.

You'll still find payphones in the subways here, which makes sense with no (or limited) cellphone reception underground, you'd want a reliable way to contact people outside of the subway system in the even of an emergency.

"Payphones in towns and cities are really well-used, with about 65,000 calls a day going through them," says Mark Johnson of BT. "But in rural areas we've got 12,000 payphones that haven't made one call a month in the last 12 months," he told the BBC.

The film's syncopated editing mixes sumptuous, noirish cinematography by Tucker, portraying payphones in various states of neglect with fair use clips of phone booths in classic movie moments.