The original pay-as-you-go phones

The original pay-as-you-go phones

In 1901, the Chicago Telephone Company ran a newspaper ad promoting a technology it said would make its service available to “every resident of Chicago”: home pay phones. Known as nickel-in-the-slot phones, they required users to insert five cents—roughly $2 today—each time they made a call, with a minimum charge of five cents per day. […] The post The original pay-as-you-go phones appeared first on Chicago Reader.