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In Vermont, one man is bringing pay phones back to life
Randtel refurbishes and retrofits used pay phones that the public can use for free.
Electrical engineer Patrick Schlott was driving to work through the picturesque, rolling hills of Orange County, Vermont, when he first spotted it: a derelict, unused payphone placed outside a general store, seemingly lost in time. The phone happened to be located in a part of his commute where cellular connectivity was spotty at best, and in a dead zone where one could travel 10 miles in any direction without picking up a signal. Nearly two years after the initial installation, Schlott has added pay phones in two more locations in the Green Mountain State: the Latham Library in Thetford and outside an information kiosk near Interstate 89 in Randolph.
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