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Dec 07, 2010

Metro Pay Phones May Soon Bite The Dust

Be honest: has anyone reading this used a pay phone at a Metro station — or anywhere for that matter — in the last couple of years? I’m willing to wager there aren’t many of you who are nodding your heads. That said, it’s hardly shocking when Kytja Weir reports this morning that pay phones inside Metro stations will likely soon go the way of the eight-track, the VCR and the cassette Walkman, floating off into the ether of technological Valhalla.

 
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