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]
PTS 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.