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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.

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@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

@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.

@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..

@vfrmedia @liaizon @brennen Weird, here until very very recently, 2G was much more omnipresent than 4G.
That's got to be serious problem for so many phones that don't do VoLTE, right?
Not to mention the tons of old 2G-only phones that people have as backup.