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--- Quote from: Cornelius on 03 Jun 2019, 10:18 ---Same here. The moment the phone companies were no longer obliged to maintain them, they all went out. After all everyone has a cell phone, no? Which is all fine and dandy until the moment you find yourself stranded on a station in the middle of nowhere, with no battery left, in the rain.
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Huh?
Over here, the Telekom, as the successor to the federal post office's telecom branch, still has a Versorgungsautrag (supply mission) - in cities, one public phone must 'in close walking distance' throughout the city, which means closer than 2.5km. There's about 20.000 public phones left nationally - in various stages of repair and hygiene, I have to add.
Cornelius:
The legal requirement was scrapped in 2013, and the last one was formally removed in 2015 - though the last I've seen was in 2017. But they weren't much use, since the Proton payment system was scrapped, and phone booth cards haven't been sold since about 2012. I can't remember when I saw the last coin operated one.
jwhouk:
According to CNN, there are about 100,000 pay phones still left in America - though most of them are in NYC. And the article in question is over a year old, so many of those 100k may no longer be working.
cybersmurf:
Since the mass adoption of portable phones over here in Austria, the amount of payphones has decreased A LOT. there still are a few, but - as far as i can tell - mostly somewhere around public transport hubs, and just random places that still seem to get some use.
Blue Kitty:
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