Pay phones vanishing as cellphones take over
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Pay phones have increasingly become dispensable in the US. The trend is due to the proliferation of cellular phones which have multiplied from 4 million in 1990 to 28 million in 1995 to 110 million in 2001. Although there are still about 1.9 million pay phones in the US, a growing number do not generate the $7 or so daily revenue that justifies the average pay phone's existence. The era of pay phones has ended with the Telecommunications Act of 1996 which deregulated the cost of local pay- phone calls and sought to encourage competition. Since then, calls that had cost 35 cents have gone up to $1.25. Thus, pay phones are no longer as attractive to callers as before.
Publication Name: USA Today
Subject: News, opinion and commentary
ISSN: 0734-7456
Year: 2001
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Casino may be last hope for "honeymoon capital"
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The author examines how the loss of tourism has forced Niagara Falls, New York into finding other means of generating income from such sources as legalized gambling and casinos.
Publication Name: USA Today
Subject: News, opinion and commentary
ISSN: 0734-7456
Year: 2003
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