"Telecommunication over Decades" Special Exhibition

Old-style Telephone Booth

Old-style Telephone Booth

When telephone was uncommon in those days, people could use the coin insertion phones at the telephone booth apart from borrowing the phones at stores. The white telephone booth is an imitation of the past setup. Does this recall your memory of using public pay phones in those days?

Telephone Booth

Telephone Booth Telephone Booth

In the 60's, in addition to the area outside the main Post Office located at the Senado Square, the junction of Rua do Visconde Paço de Arcos and Avenida de Demétrio Cinatti, Rua da Lorchas, Taipa and Cheoc Van in Coloane were also installed with telephone booths. The wooden telephone booth could only accommodate one person standing inside it. The telephone booths of different eras also used Siemens PAT1789-1HAS4 Automatic Coin Phone. The slot was designed to accept only 10-cent coins. Finally, let us review the call charges of public telephone throughout the years. For every five minutes, the call charge was MOP0.10 in 1967, MOP0.30 in 1977, MOP0.50 in 1982 and MOP1.00 since 1989 till now.

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