Dive summary:
- Lines formed at pay phones in several New York neighborhoods for people without cell phone service.
- The FCC says that 25% of cell towers are down in the 10 states hit by Hurricane Sandy.
- Pay phone relevance may delay transformation of pay phone stations into Wi-Fi hot spots.
From the article:
On Broadway below Union Square, two men in New York Giants sweatshirts operated a pay phone in tandem: One dialed the phone while the other read out the number from a cell phone, the device in his hand reduced to a $700 address book.
