High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Jaroth, Inc. d/b/a Pacific Telemanagement Services is a nationwide operator of payphones in the United States based in San Leandro, California. It was founded in 1984 and usually takes over the pay telephone operations that telephones companies such as BellSouth have abandoned. AT T payphones that have been removed at Wal-Mart locations have been replaced with phones from PTS. Many colleges have also done the same .