Is there a complete list of payphone numbers and locations?
Updated: October 05, 2004 Is there a complete list of payphone numbers and locations? Where can I find a directory of all payphone numbers and locations? The short answers to these question are “no” and “nowhere.” This website contains a database of about a half-million payphone numbers, but by no means is it a comprehensive listing of all public phones. For more information about the database please read my comments on the payphone number lookup page. In a May 13, 2004, New York Times article about this web site, a Verizon spokesperson said that by law the phone companies are not required to issue compiled lists of public phone numbers. Phone companies are required to print the number of each pay phone on the front of each phone, but as for releasing the databases of public phone numbers Verizon’s only known public statement is “Like most phone companies, we don’t see there being any advantage in making this information public.” I myself have asked this question of others within the p
