telephone booths
Public calling stations
Telephone booths are small enclosed structures containing public pay telephones, designed to give users privacy from street noise and passersby.
Once ubiquitous on city sidewalks, they've largely disappeared as mobile phones became universal.
The classic design featured folding glass doors and an interior light: Superman ducked into a telephone booth to change into his costume.
Also called phone booths.
- telephonesVoice transmission devices
- call boxPublic emergency telephone
- publicAvailable to all
- coin slotPayment insertion point
- collect callCall billed to recipient
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telephone boothssmartphones
Handheld touchscreen computers
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