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Playing with payphones: how the ubiquitous orange booths have been gamified by fans

Quaint and often overlooked, payphones continue to provide an essential public service, with millions of free calls being placed each year

A man I’ve never met stands at a payphone in Sydney’s central business district.

“A serene small park directly to the right of the payphone,” he says poetically into the receiver. “There’s a man with an interesting cap sitting down there, and an ibis. I guess they’ll be immortalised in this phone voicemail forever.”

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Jun 11, 2026 Society Telstra Telecoms

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