America’s love affair with cell phones is a curse on pay phone providers, who are watching profits dwindle as wireless phone use surges. But a new Emmaus company, NetYou Stations LLC, hopes t… ...

The ordinance includes restrictions on pay telephones on vacant property, in abandoned buildings, locations licensed for the sale of alcohol and residential properties.

Second, outdoor pay phones could be replaced with “emergency only” red-colored phones, which would allow only outgoing calls to police, fire, ambulance or towing services.

In a typical pay telephone scam, a company sells pay phones to investors through a middleman for between $5,000 to $7,000, the regulators said. As part of the sale, the company agrees to lease ...

Staten Island could gain more Internet hotspots once the city's DoITT finishes creating a citywide network by repurposing largely antiquated pay telephone booths.

It may not have been the most storied body of water in Los Angeles, but the lake in Echo Park certainly had its share of underwater stories to tell.