Telephone booth

A phone booth, technically as telephone booths designated ( TelH ), is a small house with a floor area of about one square meter on the inner rear wall of a telephone is attached. The the call charges are paid according to the input equipment with coins, a phone, credit or debit card. Telephone booths are generally in the public domain. Call points are not a telephone booth, they are set to permanently set phone numbers (eg from fire, police, taxi ) and therefore not be regarded as a phone booth.

Terms

Originally the term telephone booth called the built- in concrete buildings cabins with a phone. Most of these were initially equipped at the post office responsible for telecommunications in place and with a door. Outdoors erected cabins were, however, referred to as telephone cottage or telephone kiosks. By the time a term conversion has taken place and today is generally used only the term cell for both indoor (ie in buildings), as well as free standing open outdoor cabins.

A Club Phone is a semi- public payphone.

History

With the advent of telephony, it was necessary to establish " public telephones " in the form of phone booths to open up the limited line number for a larger group of people. The world's first public telephone booth was set up on 28 January 1878 in New Haven (Connecticut, USA). With the expansion of the improved network of private connections and growing since the 1990s, the number of mobile phones, the importance of payphones has declined. To make it easier to maintain the facilities, they are usually only with phone cards or money, hardly established as a coin-operated machines.

Country-specific

Picture Galleries

• Gallery from payphones

Telephone booth in London, concrete, 1974

Austria from about 1975 4 Aluminum Profiles stayer. ; Aluminum-plastic sandwich safety glass in profile rubber; continuous light

Swedish telephone booth

Speech mussels in Beijing

Phone booth in Chinatown, San Francisco

Phone booth in Paris

Public phone in the U.S.

Telephone hood in Moscow

Phone booth in the Shaolin Monastery, Henan, PR China

Swisscom payphones in Chur

Lithuanian cell phone in Kaunas

Public phone in South Africa

Hungary (Magyar Telekom ), Újhermesakna ( German: Hermes), a former mining village

Ukrainian cell phone in Odessa

Phone booth in Turkmenistan

Phone booth British origin in Valletta, Malta

Phone booth in Holstebro, Denmark, 2012

An old phone booth in Berlin -Marie village

Public telephone in Kazan, Russia

Use in film and television

Telephone booths are often represented in crime films as a source of anonymous reports. In fact, phone booths are still one of the few anonymous ways to call. In GSM infrastructure-related, is the approximate location and the identity of the caller is known (master data to the SIM card, IMEI number of the terminal ). Although the location of a cell phone is also known, but not the identity of the caller.

Examples:

• The two fictional characters Inspector Spacetime and the Doctor travel in phone booths or a police cell. Both space-time ships are British design.
• The thriller Phone Booth plays almost exclusively in a phone booth.
• In the fifth Harry Potter part Mr. Weasley and Harry Potter go through a phone booth in the Ministry of Magic.

Abuse

Not infrequently, phone booths are misused for deliberate false alarms from police and fire departments. This happens primarily due to lack of video surveillance of telephone equipment on the one hand and by little -frequented locations on the other. Both fire departments and police are legally obliged to investigate every emergency call. The intentional false alarm is confirmed in Germany by a fine of not less than 100 euro.