Re: The Payphone is Back! (well in Rural Vermont at least)

From	Richmond <dnomhcir@gmx.com>
Newsgroups	uk.telecom
Subject	Re: The Payphone is Back! (well in Rural Vermont at least)
Date	2026-05-18 11:21 +0100
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Adrian Caspersz <email@here.invalid> writes:

> On 18/05/2026 09:53, Richmond wrote:
>> "VoIP Brings Back Old-Fashioned Pay Phones to Rural Vermont Dial zero
>> for a direct line to the engineerwho installed them
>> "Remember pay phones? Those relics of telecom’s distant past were
>> once
>> everywhere—on many busy street corners, in bars and restaurants, even
>> built into airliners’ seatbacks. Now, an engineer in Vermont is aiming
>> to give the old-fashioned device some present-day relevance.
>> "Patrick Schlott, 32, is an electrical engineer by training who
>> works at
>> the South Burlington, Vt.–based eVTOL maker Beta Technologies. Inspired
>> in part by the free-phone projects Futel and PhilTel, he’s restored and
>> installed free-to-use pay phones at over half a dozen locations across
>> Vermont. "
>> https://spectrum.ieee.org/payphone-voip
>
>
> BT are busy installing Street Hubs
>
> https://business.bt.com/public-sector/street-hubs/street-hubs-for-the-public/
>
> There is one outside our local train station, you can make free phone
> calls, connect to wifi and gaze at the latest crucial must-see
> advertising for Dolmio pasta sauce....
>
> Oh on that, also found a chance to buy your own historical telephone
> box and accessories
>
> https://www.x2connect.com/RedPhonebox/Telephone-Box-Pricing
>
> Is this an investment thing?

Street Hub sounds useful, but the FAQ doesn't say where they
are. Searching on Google suggests the nearest one to me is about 50
miles away.

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The Payphone is Back! (well in Rural Vermont at least) Richmond <dnomhcir@gmx.com> - 2026-05-18 09:53 +0100
  Re: The Payphone is Back! (well in Rural Vermont at least) Adrian Caspersz <email@here.invalid> - 2026-05-18 11:02 +0100
    Re: The Payphone is Back! (well in Rural Vermont at least) Richmond <dnomhcir@gmx.com> - 2026-05-18 11:21 +0100

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