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I just wonder why all Telus Public Payphones are removed. It’s only my 3rd months of having lunch at Lonsdale Quay since i got a private home support client in the area. I noticed, heard and sometime...
Additionally since covid hit, most people don't even carry change anymore, payphones don't support tap to pay, and since payphones are rarely if ever sanitized, who knows what's on them.
A guy in Vancouver created a map of payphones. He hasn't been to Lonsdale Quay recently so that one still shows on the map. Some of them were updated more recently.
The revenue a payphone generates is almost NIL and the cost to maintain them outweighs keeping them. Some payphones have generated less than $5 for the entire year. The shift has gone to almost everyone carrying a cellphone these days, and plenty of WiFi hot spots. Over time there will be less and less public pay phones, as the culture shift away from them.
Like renting Beta, VHS, Laser disc and blu ray, everything shifts away sooner or later.
- I do understand your point of view on how public payphones is vanishing now a days Sir. I’m very thankful that commented for the public to get the idea why payphones is vanishing. Unfortunately, it doesn’t address my concern specifically at Lonsdale Quay. At least 1 public payphone booth at that Quay not only for the purpose of generating income because our lives in this world did not rely on income or money alone. It also involved helping and serving others for a better world to live in.
Once again just 1 payphone to address those unexpected circumstances both visitors and locals experienced at the Quay where they need an immediate access of phones.
Be blessed everyone
SHALAWA
