What do the old pay phones?
All major cities have a network of public telephones in most streets â€" absolutely crucial to the functioning of cities a few years ago, but completely obsolete in the age of smartphones.The United Kingdom, known for its red telephone booths has converted the spaces obsolete. Since 2009 that more than 1,500 cabins were transformed into florists, information points, small art galleries and even small libraries. British Telecom lets even the public to adopt one of these cabins for just one pound.It seems that every major city are considering the problem of obsolete telephone booths. The South Africa will transform all of its 79,000 telegónicas cabins in wi-fi points. China is doing the same from 2011, referred to the City Lab.In New York, there are still 9,000 payphones functional, but the contract of these paid phones ends in 2015 and the city still doesn't know what to do or cabins that new generation of payphones will come. The city is waiting to receive proposals on the new generation of payphones.Rumor has it that Google is among the companies interested in installing the new generation of payphones in New York, but he has no intention of turning into something more cabins to distribution points of wi-fi. Also IBM, Samsung and Cisco were present at sessions of clarification on the future of payphones in New York and it may be here that come to birth a new generation of global public phones.Foto: bubuninha / Creative Commons
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