Pay phone definition

Pay phone or "pay telephone" means any telephone made available to the public on a fee-per-call basis indepen- dent of any other commercial transaction. A pay phone or pay telephone includes telephones that are coin-operated or are activated by calling collect or using a calling card.

Examples of Pay phone in a sentence

  • Pay phone lines are defined as the loop from the pay phone instrument to the Serving Wire Center.

  • Pay phone lines are attached to coinless and coin pay phone sets (e.g. NEVADA's COPT service).