15K Australian public phone booths are now Freephones and some are free wi-fi hotspots. I don’t think I’ve used one since the late 1990s, though.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-08-03/telstra-has-made-its-15000-payphones-free/100344664
this post was submitted on 10 Nov 2024
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i found a working red telephone box in stratford-upon-avon last week.
most of them have been turned into defibrilator access points, or mini libraries or ripped out entirely these days.
Reminds me of Ghostwire: Tokyo 😂
Underrated game.
Open it.
What game is that?
Google says ghost wire tokyo
Pay phones are still common in many places around the world. An indicator may be those mapped on OSM: https://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/tags/amenity=telephone#map
They are common in my country, but I hardly ever see anyone use them.
Why different emergency number for popo?
Having only one emergency number isn't the standard everywhere in the world. In my childhood here in Austria I learned that the fire department is 122, the police is 133, ambulance is 144; these numbers still work AFAIK, but nowadays the government's recommendation is to dial 112 (the EU-wide emergency number) no matter what you need.
Those green guys were everywhere when I've been, they look so satisfying
These are relatively easy to find in Japan
Couldn't tell you why but they are
so there are easy exits when people need to get out of the matrix
Despite the old stereotype of Japan being a futuristic nation that produces the technology of tomorrow, a lot of it's institutions are still using very outdated technology.
Fax is still very actively used
I couldn’t believe how many cash only places there were!
Fax is still used in government and healthcare in the United States.
Floppy disks, too.
Read one time that "thirty years ago, Japan was ten years in the future. Today, Japan is twenty years in the past."
They've been living in the year 2000 for four decades.
A what?
PAY PHONE!
I love Kanazawa.
What do you love about Kanazawa? Should I visit there?
Kenroku-en Garden, The Contemporary museum, the way the trees are strung with twine during winter to prevent snow is very artful as well as the special coverings hand tied in the samurai area. The curries are very good there.
Nice!