Pacific Telemanagement Services
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]
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
[edit]- ^ "PTS Website". Archived from the original on 2010-12-08. Retrieved 2019-04-25.
- ^ Open Forum[dead link]
- ^ "The Office Phone Booth," Bloomberg BusinessWeek, May 7–13, 2012.
- ^ (2012-05-22). FairPoint Communications Announces Sale of Payphone Operations PRNewsWire. Retrieved 2012-05-22.