Pay Phone Booths: Obsolete in Africa Already?

When was the last time you used a pay phone booth in an African country? I'm not talking about a pay phone as in borrowing someone's cell for a few bob, or the ubiquitous plastic phones where you make a call on a timer. I am talking about an actual phone booth pay phone.

I cannot even remember seeing them in Kenya or Nigeria. I think I saw a few in Tanzania, but I know I never used one.

Now Edward Scotcher of Africa Gathering has found when they've all gone. It seems that old pay phone booths go to the Lamu phone booth graveyard to die.

lamu phonebox graveyard

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Wayan Vota

Inveneo

Wayan Vota is a technology expert focused on appropriate information and communication technologies (ICT) for rural and underserved areas of the developing world. He is a Senior Director at Inveneo and is the editor of ICTworks

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