Article 768JE Playing with payphones: how the ubiquitous orange booths have been gamified by fans

Playing with payphones: how the ubiquitous orange booths have been gamified by fans

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Caitlin Cassidy
from on (#768JE)

Quaint and often overlooked, payphones continue to provide an essential public service, with millions of free calls being placed each year

A man I've never met stands at a payphone in Sydney's central business district.

A serene small park directly to the right of the payphone," he says poetically into the receiver. There's a man with an interesting cap sitting down there, and an ibis. I guess they'll be immortalised in this phone voicemail forever."

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