OLD PHONE, NEW PHONE (4.03.07)

There were about 2 million payphones in the United States in 1997. This was down to 1.3 million by 2004 and continues to fall. Comparatively, cell phone owners—like the guy in the background of this picture— numbered 4.3 million in 1990 in the U.S., while there are more than 220 million wireless subscribers. Meanwhile, a phone booth in Pennan, Scotland was the site of a new world record the other day when 16 people crammed themselves into it.



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