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End of an era: Germany will lose its payphones early next year.
Deutsche Telekom has explained to the municipal umbrella
organizations and the town halls that all telephone booths will
be switched off by February 2023. This is reported by the
Stuttgarter Nachrichten, citing the letter from Telekom. There
are still 12,000 telephone booths in Germany. The last of this
street furniture is expected to be dismantled by the beginning of
2025, Telekom has now declared.
There are details (in German) at the following website: you'll need to
certify that the cookies on the site are acceptable before you'll be
allowed to see the content: it's the box on the left of the splash
page.
https://www.golem.de/news/rathaeuser-deutsche-telekom-schaltet-alle-telefonzellen-ab-2210-169283.html
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