BellSouth said Fri. it was exiting payphone business in move it p...
BellSouth said Fri. it was exiting payphone business in move it partly attributed to migration of customers to wireless phones and interactive pagers. Company said it would begin transition “immediately,” with completion expected in Dec. 2002. BellSouth said it…
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was giving customers and payphone location providers almost 2 years’ advance notice “to allow sufficient opportunity for the identification of other technologies.” BellSouth Network Services Pres. Charles Coe said: “This decision will allow BellSouth to focus on its core broadband, Internet and digital network offerings, as well as domestic wireless data and voice business and Latin America.” Company has 143,000 payphones in southeastern U.S. and BS said that since 1998, usage of those phones had dropped “dramatically.” BellSouth also said payphone industry has had to compete with declines in rates long distance carriers pay to payphone service providers for 1-800 and other “dial-around” calls.