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In Vermont, pay phones return free of charge in cellular dead zone
An electrical engineer in rural Vermont is reviving old pay phones to give people a free option for making calls in areas where cell service is unreliable or nonexistent.
Schlott, a full-time engineer at electric airplane manufacturing company BETA Technologies, decided to approach the owners of his local general store with the idea to install old pay phones around town and make them free for public use. The first free public phone installation was Schlott’s idea, but he says the two other locations, the Latham Library in Thetford and inside an informational booth in Randolph off Interstate 89, came from community members requesting the service. Schlott buys the old pay phones, which can range in cost from $100 to $500, at flea markets, from internet listings or at auction and fixes them up in his basement workshop.
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