The phone outside Narooma Plaza on the Princes Highway has been heritage-listed for its cultural and social role in the Black Summer fires, with almost 1,000 calls made over two months during and after the disaster.
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It was such a good idea to make all payphones free instead of taking them down
I think it also acts as a reminder what when you can’t rely on the corporately provided mobile networks, the (privatised) government-built infrastructure is still reliable.
I did not know that. That’s cool.
Allegedly they were always free.
After 2$ coin in, feed a plastic straw above the coin return, knock the coin to return, credit still registered.
And then someone goes and gamifies them https://payphonetag.com/
