Lindgrin said his busiest telephone was on the corner of Prospect Avenue and 23rd Street. He has about 150 telephones now, compared with a high of 200. Instead, he recently agreed to place ads on 300 pay phone enclosures. And after seeing ads pop up on parking meters, gasoline pump handles and airport baggage carousels, Harris soon will start placing them on his pay phone faceplates. At Elcotel Telecommunications, a pay phone manufacturer in Sarasota, Fla., sales have fallen about 20 percent a year for the last three years, said Dan Fragen, senior vice president for sales and worldwide marketing.
Customers even can make credit card purchases.
If you could give them an added benefit, maybe other people will use them too. The Star's Suzanne King contributed to this report.