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first and only payphone I have come across in morocco so far and theres no dial tone

@liaizon i'm always questing for the still-working payphone, but i think it's been at least a couple years since my last encounter.

@brennen I guess most of the infrastructure is probably gone by now

@liaizon @brennen

The special linecards at the Telephone Exchange to send the metering pulses are likely to be decomissioned as everything switches from the old TDM kit to VOIP - I've not ever encountered a VOIP channel bank that can produce meter pulses and am unsure if such a thing even exists.

Its more common for the whole telephone set to be removed when payphone service is ceased in case someone expects it to be working for calling 190/112 (emergency numbers)

@liaizon @brennen

Here in England I've not seen a working payphone for a decade or so - there are a few remaining working ones but only in areas where there is 0 LTE signal in case they are required for a 999/112 call - British Telecom have ceased the vast majority of them.

The red phone box (which normally contains a 230V supply with 500W max power for lighting) is often repurposed for other uses...

suffolknews.co.uk/beccles/doze

Suffolk NewsDozens of iconic phone boxes available to adopt for community projectsBy Rebekah Chilvers
brennen

@vfrmedia @liaizon i think the last one i found in the western US was outside a gas station in colorado circa maybe 2018? i walked up to it to check and before i even got there this dude sitting on the curb next to it smoking a cigarette was like "it still works".

@vfrmedia @liaizon if i'm honest though i'm not sure i can pin this memory to a time more specific than 2015-2020.