Payphone Project Site

[Jo Nathen]

Forgot all about this. http://www.payphone-project.com/numbers/usa/

I was looking for a mailbox on google and this site does this as well. Might be old news to me but each state now has...........counties. Kinda scary ...and the layout of the webpage hurts your eyes. 2 numbers I dialed are now fax machines hahahaha. And....I noticed most numbers start matching after the prefixes ...In other words. xxx-xxx-98xx. 98 seems to be popular.

[MattGSX]

Jo Nathan, you do realize the difference between a fax machine and a COCOT's internal modem, right?

Nevertheless, this is an interesting find. All of the info in my city (Oshkosh) has to be at least 7-8 years old, as everything listed is from when we still shared an area code with Milwaukee (and when West Allis and Wauwatosa were still classed as North Milwaukee)

[jx]

Forgot all about this. http://www.payphone-project.com/numbers/usa/

I was looking for a mailbox on google and this site does this as well. Might be old news to me but each state now has...........counties. Kinda scary ...and the layout of the webpage hurts your eyes. 2 numbers I dialed are now fax machines hahahaha. And....I noticed most numbers start matching after the prefixes ...In other words. xxx-xxx-98xx. 98 seems to be popular.

Hmm.. that list is highly suspect.

Using http://www.payphone-project.com/numbers/usa/FL/VERO_BEACH/ as an example, area code mismatches (And not just the neighboring area codes but area codes in different states) and names as descriptions (Unless the owner of the site somehow acquired a customer list from a COCOT company). Maybe the owner is aware of something I'm not, though.

Related site: http://www.payphone-directory.org/ from the PLA's own El Jefe.

Sometime in the late 90s or early 00's, El Jefe's site was mentioned on the WGN news at noon in Chicago. I wasn't paying attention, I just looked up in time to see the screen and recognize the site. Back then my site was the first in the links and I got all sorts of hits from it.

[MattGSX]

Jenn-

A big part of the problem is that the guy doesn't do quality control. When relying on user submissions and random stuff that you run across on the Internet, I'd think quality control is pretty key, but... meh. I found that, if you switch the area codes, some of the payphones listed on there are still active. Just a few, but there are. I think my city is down to about 2 dozen telco-owned phones, with a majority being in a Greyhound station, and the rest strewn about the city (mostly in bars)