Schlott buys the old pay phones, which can range in cost from $100 to $500, at flea markets, from internet listings or at auction and fixes them up in his basement workshop.

TUNBRIDGE, Vt. (AP) — An electrical engineer by trade, Patrick Schlott has spent countless hours tinkering with new and old technology. But it wasn’t until he found himself living in rural ...

An electrical engineer in rural Vermont is reviving old pay phones to give people a free option for making calls in areas where cell service is unreliable or nonexistent. Patrick Schlott has put up ...

An electrical engineer in rural Vermont is reviving old pay phones to give people a free option for making calls in areas where cell service is unreliable or nonexistent.

In Vermont, pay phones return free of charge in cellular dead zone An electrical engineer in rural Vermont is reviving old pay phones to give people a free option for making calls in areas where ...