In the industrialized world, pay phones are key tools for communication since they are ubiquitous, economical, and efficient. To widely provide the communication services, a great amount of pay phones have been installed everywhere. In order to guarantee the quality and the performance, it is required to retrieve and obtain the operation statuses of the pay phones in time especially when they operate abnormally and make appropriate recovery if necessary. In this research, we design an efficient management system tailored for the pay phones to satisfy the above requirements. Owing to the fast progress of communication technologies, many advanced techniques have been proposed for pay phones such as intelligent pay phone fraud detect systems, multimedia pay phones, and wireless pay phones. The intelligent pay phone fraud detect system can avoid make a phone call illegally without paying. The multimedia pay phone system provides multimedia phone services except voice, Web browsing, e-mail, and advertisement services. Besides, wireless pay phones make it possible to rapidly install a temporary pay phone when it is difficult or impossible to install a wireline one. Finally, due to the popularization of internet, that transmit voice over internet becomes popular. Therefore, we also plan to design a pay phone system based on the internet to take its advantages.