According to a survey agency, there are currently 6.648 billion smart phone users in the world, equivalent to 83.72% of the world’s total population, and people have fewer and fewer opportunities to use public pay phones. We have also reported many times in the past on how local governments have revitalized public telephone booths, such as transforming them into small libraries, e-hailing bus stations, or stations for replacing batteries of electric motorcycles.
When the outside world pays attention to how to make good use of the space of public phone booths, it ignores that public pay phones themselves are an important tool to serve the public and keep people in touch. Netizen Mathew Furman set up an online public payphone museum, The Payphone Museum, to collect photos and sounds of public payphones from all over the world, trying to make a record for this telecommunication tool, to preserve the “endangered species” that are gradually disappearing due to the influence of mobile phones. “.
The Payphone Museum currently contains 43 pages of public payphone photos taken by netizens from all over the world. Each photo will have a brief introduction or location information. Some contributors said that a few years ago, the phone had to be charged, but now it has become free, and some Contributors have tested some public telephones to receive incoming calls, but the ringtone system has been removed. In addition to photos, the museum also includes recordings of American payphones asking users to put in coins.
Data and picture sources:The Payphone Museum
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