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The only person that would speak to me from a pay phone was my husband.
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Caroline Thayer, Fox News, 28 Jan. 2025
A week into his stint in the Islands, Mueller grabbed a pay phone outside his hotel to call his father on the mainland.
—Chad Jennings, The Athletic, 22 Jan. 2025
Another journalist managed to get around the requirement by registering a pay phone, but that's a pretty big effort just to use a private messaging app, so stick to a disposable phone number generator.
—PCMAG, 11 Dec. 2024
The pay phone was only available on Saturday, but that didn't slow internet sleuths.
—Kelsey Bradshaw, Austin American-Statesman, 6 May 2024
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Caroline Thayer, Fox News, 28 Jan. 2025
A week into his stint in the Islands, Mueller grabbed a pay phone outside his hotel to call his father on the mainland.
—Chad Jennings, The Athletic, 22 Jan. 2025
Another journalist managed to get around the requirement by registering a pay phone, but that's a pretty big effort just to use a private messaging app, so stick to a disposable phone number generator.
—PCMAG, 11 Dec. 2024
The pay phone was only available on Saturday, but that didn't slow internet sleuths.
—Kelsey Bradshaw, Austin American-Statesman, 6 May 2024
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“Pay phone.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/pay%20phone. Accessed 4 Feb. 2025.
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