cell phone usage<\/a>.<\/p>\n“In five years, it could be completely passé to be at a table in a restaurant and not get up to use the cell phone booth,” said Boehm, who paid around $3,500 to install a plush, brown and blue velvet-appointed booth at his own new restaurant, called BOKA. A discreet note on the menu tells diners about the booth.<\/p>\n
Just when many mannered folks had given up on having a civilized dinner or library trip, without overhearing other people?s conversations, a simple solution seems to be calling.<\/p>\n
Phone companies have eliminated more than a million traditional pay phones in the past eight years, many of them in phone booths, according to the Federal Communications Commission. Now, some restaurants, libraries and other businesses are slowly bringing back phone booths, without the phone this time. Users bring their own mobile phone and can talk as loud as they want without bothering anybody else or being asked to step outside.<\/p>\n
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