• AndyMFK@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    1 month ago

    There’s still a lot of payphones in my country. They’re free now and no longer accept money and they also provide free wifi. Recently I’ve been seeing signs on them that kids can call Santa

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      1 month ago

      Australia? My guess/ memory is that they earn more from advertising than the cost to maintain them. I think that’s more dystopian. An ageing technology is allowed to keep using public spaces to advertise of they frame it as a public good.