Sentence examples for payphones from inspiring English sources
The word 'payphones' is correct and commonly used in written English
It refers to public telephones that require payment in order to make a call. Example: "He desperately searched for a payphone to call his parents and let them know he would be late for dinner."
That country almost certainly has the world's highest ownership of mobile telephones (33 mobiles for every 100 people); the world's highest Internet (and probably modem) penetration; and more public payphones per head than almost anywhere else in Europe.
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.
Mobiles are forbidden (though many inmates possess them), and most prisoners have only two hours a day in which they may use the payphones.
Recently, The New York Times was one of many partners involved in a hack day to generate ideas for rejuvenating and repurposing New York City's 11,412 payphones.
The seven-month-old History Museum, which opened last May just off the Plaza, is not only stunning, but even makes local history interesting: overhead displays of hundreds of arrows, period payphones on which you can hear scientists reminisce about Los Alamos, and a section on Billy the Kid, including his fancy spurs.
The BT monopoly means that prisoners, barred from receiving incoming calls on prison payphones, are charged way over the going rate for their calls.
It's also possible to look up numbers of pay phones -- on www.payphone-directory.org and at The Payphone Project (www.sorabji.com/livewire/payphones).sorabji.com/livewire/payphones
I remember waiting in the queue for the payphone at uni which was separated from the corridor by a few bits of hardboard.
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.
On October 21st local police in Virginia unilaterally decided to ambush two men in a white van who were using a service station payphone.
In Uganda it erected the first solar payphone, used by local fishermen, on Lake Victoria.
