In response to the declining use of public telephones in many locations, Deutsche Telekom is carrying out a national pilot test involving the implementation of “basic” public telephones until the end of 2005. The basic phones would allow emergency calls to be made, calling cards to be used or reverse charge calls to be initiated. However, they would not have coin and telephone card slots, which are susceptible to vandalism and represent an on-going cost to the company.
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