Death Of The Dial Tone: Nebraska’s Dwindling Pay Phones Draw Lots Of Curiosity, Few Calls

Death Of The Dial Tone: Nebraska’s Dwindling Pay Phones Draw Lots Of Curiosity, Few Calls

The pay phone outside the Pierce Telephone Co. in Pierce wasn’t working when someone tried to use it, so Jeff Kesting, the phone company’s plant manager, fixed the problem so the phone would work again.(Darin Epperly / Flatwater Free Press) Curiosity led Dr. Lane Handke to try the pay phone outside the Pierce Telephone Co. in Pierce. He asked Jeff Kesting, the phone company’s plant manager, why it wasn’t working. Kesting fixed the problem and en…