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Neil Brown 1d ago

Have you ever...

Used a telephone book

19.3%

Spoken to a (human) telephone operator

11.6%

Reversed charges on a call

7.4%

Made a call from pay phone / phone box

18.4%

Received a call on a pay phone / phone box

7.2%

Used a phone card

15.2%

Dialled from one exchange to another to route a call

2.6%

Used a rotary dial phone

18.2%

Poll ended at 4:12pm.

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Colin the Mathmo 1d ago

@neil I have also used a pay phone on a train.

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Alex@rtnVFRmedia Suffolk UK

@ColinTheMathmo @neil 100% on all of them. I also remember the loud "cuckoo" tone on inbound calls to a payphone (to prevent reverse charge calls being made via the operator), also during late 1980a if you tried some calls on level 1 such as 16 (Dial a disc) and another one (it was some number like 159) you would just hear a loud cuckoo sound from *inside* the phone box and the call would be abruptly cleared down (presumably this is because a metering pulse had come down the line but you hadn't put any money in)