Oh yeah #payphones! I remember those... Please deposit 25 cents... Bid for Dorset phone boxes to be scrapped https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-dorset-66546963?xtor=AL-72-%5Bpartner%5D-%5Bbbc.news.twitter%5D-%5Bheadline%5D-%5Bnews%5D-%5Bbizdev%5D-%5Bisapi%5D&at_link_origin=BBCTech&at_link_id=89C3BC5C-3FE2-11EE-AEFF-BF41FE754D29&at_format=link&at_ptr_name=twitter&at_medium=social&at_bbc_team=editorial&at_campaign=Social_Flow&at_link_type=web_link&at_campaign_type=owned 💿📼🛼🎞️☎️📞

#PayPhones Are Back — at Least at the Courthouse Where #Trump Faced #Arraignment
https://themessenger.com/politics/pay-phones-are-back-at-least-at-the-courthouse-where-trump-is-facing-arraignment

Any old #phone #phreaks about? I’ve seen a couple of historical references recently to people #phreaking transatlantic calls from the USA to London, terminating the call on a payphone at Waterloo train station because it was in a busy area and was likely to be answered by a passer by.

Most of those #payphones are long gone, but

Does anyone have a record of what the #payphone number was?

tinkering with the old payphone again. The big task left is to deal with the paint & some corrosion on the nickel plated elements. Like ideally would sandblast and powdercoat, but those require skills and equipment outside my wheelhouse for now - so back in the box it goes. Need more time in life...

[ #Projects #PayPhone #PayPhones ]

#payphones are vanishingly rare. The gentleman in this article turns them into free #publicphone terminals as a service and hobby.

#payphone #phonebooth
https://wapo.st/3YuFZEe

Within the article is a link to a #GoogleMap someone else made of #workingpayphones around the #UnitedStates.

https://www.google.com/maps/d/u/0/viewer?mid=1AvBK6j127909qbcFUXNrVVfYXb9bVHjA&ll=39.979516534410614%2C-75.16379816544176&z=11

A free-to-use payphone will be installed at a hacker bookshop in Philadelphia.

It's retrofitted with Asterisk VoIP & OpenVPN encryption. Provided by phreaking collective, PhilTel, as a proof-of-concept public service. "We think they're cool."

Funding & wider deployment are at an aspirational stage. Though not unprecedented.

https://www.phillyvoice.com/payphones-philly-philtel-project-free-voip-network-iffy-books/
https://www.makeuseof.com/payphones-are-coming-back-in-philadelphia-thanks-to-linux/
https://jawns.club/@philtel/109438844603304900
#Payphones #Philadelphia