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
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)
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...
@anymouse_404 @liaizon @brennen
some providers have and others are planning to do so very soon, GSM was never that good in rural areas anyway..