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Posted by Koos van den Hout on June 2, 2008, 6:39 am
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> My partner got into the payphone biz very shortly after it was opened up to
> private owners.? With the advent of cell phones everywhere, he now has some
> 200 payphones hanging dead on poles; only four are still economically viable,
> the rest have been disconnected.
> Does anyone have any Cool Ideas how he can make some money off these things???
> Other than ebaying them or selling them for scrap??? (They cost a thousand
> dollars a piece originally, and of course the locations ought to be good for
> SOMETHING ...)
Only thing I can think of is fitting them with a dsl modem and a wireless
access point so you can offer Internet access via wi-fi.
That is my first guess based on 'areas where mobile phones have made
payphones obsolete'.
On the other hand, cheap 3G access might make this plan fail soon too.
Koos
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