Jaroth, Inc. d/b/a Pacific Telemanagement Services is a nationwide operator of payphones in the United States based in San Leandro, California.[1] It was founded in 1984 and has taken over many pay telephone operations that major telephone companies have abandoned.

Many AT&T payphones were sold to PTS in 2008.[2]

A former AT&T payphone in Kansas City, Kansas that changed hands to PTS.

Pacific Telemanagement purchased most of the payphone operations of Verizon in October 2011.[3]

FairPoint Communications announced it would sell its payphone business to PTS on May 22, 2012.[4] The sale makes Frontier Communications as one of the last major telecommunications providers continuing to operate payphones. Pacific Telemanagement Services operates approximately 25,000 payphones across the US.

References

  1. ↑ "PTS Website". Archived from the original on 2010-12-08. Retrieved 2019-04-25.
  2. ↑ Open Forum
  3. ↑ "The Office Phone Booth," Bloomberg BusinessWeek, May 7–13, 2012.
  4. ↑ (2012-05-22). FairPoint Communications Announces Sale of Payphone Operations PRNewsWire. Retrieved 2012-05-22.
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