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

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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?

-- 
Adrian C

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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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