Verizon said its payphone use during the Aug. 14 blackout was 3.5...
Verizon said its payphone use during the Aug. 14 blackout was 3.5 times higher than normal in Manhattan and almost 2.5 times higher in the rest of N.Y. Payphone use in other areas hit by the power failure was…
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about 1.5 times greater than normal, it said. After the heavy usage Aug. 14- 15, the company said it dispatched more than 100 technicians over the weekend to service 20,000 payphones in the metropolitan N.Y. area to ensure uninterrupted service, as outbound calling was suspended once the payphones’ coin collection boxes were full. Verizon, which operates more than 350,000 payphones in 38 states, didn’t specify how much revenue the increase in payphone calling volume generated. “There will always be a market for payphones, no matter how successful wireless communications becomes,” said Paul Francischetti, vp-mktg. & business development for Verizon Public Communications Group: “It was clear last week that they provide convenient, reliable service during an emergency.”