Telstra making pay phones free during covid

[Haza]

Does it work with adult hotlines if it does I can see young 16yo boys having fun with them pay phones. Telstra will have to start supplying tissues aswell

 

[CroydonDog]

Does it work with adult hotlines if it does I can see young 16yo boys having fun with them pay phones. Telstra will have to start supplying tissues aswell

Phone sex?
What year is it?

 

[Wahesh]

I can only think of 5 Telstra phone boxes still around these days and they're always empty. No one uses them anymore. They're an expense to Telstra, they should just decommission them all and send them off to the Museums.

 

[Haza]

Phone sex?
What year is it?

Don’t they still exist?
Or is it onlyfans these days?

 

[Wahesh]

Anyone remember the old Telecom/Telstra phone cards? You'd buy them prepaid and can use the public pay phones lol. This was before the days of the Nokia 5110.

 

[Hacky McAxe]

Anyone remember the old Telecom/Telstra phone cards? You'd buy them prepaid and can use the public pay phones lol. This was before the days of the Nokika 5110.

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I remember going up to a phone booth, dialing reverse charges, and when it went through to my dad the message he got was:

"you have received a reverse charges call from, 'hey dad I'm at the train station pick me up', do you want to accept the call?"

 

[DinkumDog]

Another reason to remember select mobile numbers now is Pay-ID - way better than BSB and Account numbers and the payment goes through instantly too.

 

[Chris Harding]

Every red phone box I went in in London was just being used as a toilet.

Never used the public phones in London, apart from the ones in pubs, and my office phone in Threadneedle Street.
In later times I had a mobile.

 

[Chris Harding]

Yeah that makes sense. Encourage random people to all touch the same object that never gets cleaned so they can spread the virus some more...

Even before the virus, I always wiped down the phones , and held a tissue over the earpiece.

 

[Chris Harding]

13 30 32 and 9481 11 11 how good is a clever jingle..

My direct line phone at the bank in Kings Cross was one digit different from a male escort agency. I used to get offers from desperate ladies and men every bloody day.

 

[Wahesh]

Good old 1800 REVERSE lol. I wonder if that service is still around.

 

[south of heaven]

Just ring
36 24 36 hey
I lead a life of crime

 

[CroydonDog]

Just ring
36 24 36 hey
I lead a life of crime

For a fee, you're happy to be, my back-door man?

 

[Greenmachine121]

Junkies will be stoked

 

[The DoggFather]

Anyone remember the old Telecom/Telstra phone cards? You'd buy them prepaid and can use the public pay phones lol. This was before the days of the Nokika 5110.

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Remember the trick where you used to patch up the holes with putty to reuse the card?

I found a way to access the used ones that people used to put them in the used slot under the phone, patch them up and sell them for half price at school.

Made a killing because all the boys would call the phone sex numbers lol

 

[Rodzilla]

This is just like the sit here stickers

They want people to get covid

 

[Dognacious]

Bit of an empty gesture. So all pay phones are free. The condition is you need to find one.

 

[Alan79]

Pretty handy if you're a teenager wanting to make prank calls that can't be traced back to a mobile.

 

[N4TE]

I tried it and can confirm it works but I reckon the phone I tried it on was the first time a call has been on it in a decade.

 

[Bullpit]

For a fee, you're happy to be, my back-door man?

Dirty Deeds, done dirt cheap ….