{"id":948829,"date":"2025-07-23T07:17:14","date_gmt":"2025-07-23T01:47:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=948829"},"modified":"2025-07-23T07:29:41","modified_gmt":"2025-07-23T01:59:41","slug":"vermont-engineer-revives-pay-phones-for-free-calls-in-areas-with-poor-cell-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/07\/23\/vermont-engineer-revives-pay-phones-for-free-calls-in-areas-with-poor-cell-service\/","title":{"rendered":"Vermont engineer revives pay phones for free calls in areas with poor cell service"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TUNBRIDGE, Vermont: An electrical engineer by trade, Patrick Schlott has spent countless hours tinkering with new and old technology. But it wasn&#8217;t until he found himself living in rural Vermont that he realized his penchant for repairing old pay phones could provide a public service. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I realized, wow, there&#8217;s no cell service for 10 miles (16 kilometers) in either direction,&#8221; he said. &#8220;The community could really benefit from something like this.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TUNBRIDGE, Vermont: An electrical engineer by trade, Patrick Schlott has spent countless hours tinkering with new and old technology. But it wasn&#8217;t until he found himself living in rural Vermont that he realized his penchant for repairing old pay phones could provide a public service. &#8220;I realized, wow, there&#8217;s no cell service for 10 miles (16 kilometers) in either direction,&#8221; he said. &#8220;The community could really benefit from something like this.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,60,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-948829","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-economic-times","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/948829","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=948829"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/948829\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=948829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=948829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=948829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}