David Nield is a technology journalist from Manchester in the U.K. who has been writing about gadgets and apps for more than 20 years. He has a bachelor's degree in English Literature from Durham ...

There were more than two million pay phones across the U.S. in 2000. By 2016, that number had dwindled to around 100,000 and past that, the FCC stopped keeping count. Just because traditional pay ...