The decision includes the pay telephones AT&T maintains at prisons and other government correctional facilities. Wholesale pay phone services, however, are not affected.
AT&T said it expects to sell most of its pay phone business to independent providers. In the meantime, it will keep servicing the phones it owns, and start giving customers information on other potential providers and products.
AT&T’s shutdown only affects the pay phones in its traditional 13-state region. BellSouth Corp. had closed its pay phone business before AT&T bought the provider last year.
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