A telephone booth is a small room standing on the street with a public telephone in it. These public telephones usually need to be recharged. Telephone booths are usually equipped with transparent or small windows to protect users' privacy and let people know whether the phone is in use. Phone books will be placed in telephone booths in some areas for users to refer to.
In the 19 10 era, telephone booths became popular in industrial countries at that time. In the 1980 s, pay phones were rarely put in telephone booths, and some phones were transferred to small booths.
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In the 1990s, public telephone booths began to appear in the streets. At that time, fixed lines were not popular, and few people used mobile phones and networks. Its appearance has greatly met the needs of citizens. 1998 By 2000, the telephone booth was in its heyday. In busy urban areas and university campuses, people, students and migrant workers often queue up to make phone calls. You can definitely find a public telephone every 100 meters in the street. At that time, using IC cards became a "fashion".
IC cards with denominations of 30 yuan and 50 yuan are the best sellers, and the demand is often in short supply. Every year from September to June at 5438+00, when freshmen report for duty, the telephone traffic on the university campus can reach hundreds of thousands of hours. Around 200 1, cities began to launch their own calling cards for local use only, and 200, 20 1 and other calling cards came into being. IC cards are gradually withdrawn from the communication market because of their fragile chips and high telephone charges.
With the popularity of mobile phones, the once-popular telephone booths have gradually fallen out of favor in their functions, and it is difficult to buy public telephone cards on the streets and on campus, and the telephone booths have gradually disappeared from our sight.