VoIP Brings Back Old-Fashioned Pay Phones to Rural Vermont

Image caption: A Vermont engineer has brought back pay phone service to a few remote Vermont locations, using VoIP internet-to-phone connections and some reverse engineering prowess. Image courtesy of Patrick Schlott. Article by Novid Parsi. IEEE Spectrum – November 17, 2025.

Remember pay phones? Those relics of telecom’s distant past were once everywhere—on many busy street corners, in bars and restaurants, even built into airliners’ seatbacks. Now, an engineer in Vermont is aiming to give the old-fashioned device some present-day relevance. […]

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