...Payphones across Alaska will no longer ring as two major telephone companies disconnect phone lines and remove public telephone booths throughout their service areas. Alaska Communications Systems will decommission 1,000 payphones statewide by...

...That means, unlike other state ferries, the Kennicott will have telephones in the staterooms, as well as four public telephone booths. ``It provides a nice bennie for passengers,'' Egan said. In an emergency, the seats and tables...