The pager messages were encoded to prevent easy tracing of the telephones used, all of which were public telephones.
Payphone | Payphone (song) | payphone |
As a matter of course, incoming calls to payphones are disabled; furthermore, the Bell ANAC number is also disabled (although the telephone number is marked on the payphone itself as it is needed to report a non-working coin 'phone to 6-1-1 repair service).
J R tells the story of the eponymous J R Vansant, an 11-year-old schoolboy who obscures his identity through payphone calls and postal money orders in order to parlay penny stock holdings into a fortune on paper.
On February 3, 2012, a sound-alike version of the will.i.am track "T.H.E. (The Hardest Ever)" which was available for download before the release of the original entered the UK Singles Chart at number 40, the first to do so, and other sound-alike covers of "Whistle" by Flo Rida and "Payphone" by Maroon 5 have also entered the top 40.