Comments on: Rogue Payphone Sighting https://www.payphone-project.com/rogue-payphone-sighting-2.html Mon, 10 Apr 2017 16:32:22 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.2 By: admin https://www.payphone-project.com/rogue-payphone-sighting-2.html#comment-1394 Mon, 10 Apr 2017 16:32:22 +0000 http://www.payphone-project.com/?p=6545#comment-1394 In reply to Rick.

I see them here or there but it’s been a while.
This one, across from a jail, came and went within a couple of months back in 2011-2012. It appeared to be tethered to a landline, as far as I could tell:

http://www.payphone-project.com/photos/picture.php/DSC08507/category/285-mystery_payphone_van_dam_diner_718_472_2509

]]> By: Rick https://www.payphone-project.com/rogue-payphone-sighting-2.html#comment-1383 Mon, 10 Apr 2017 05:54:52 +0000 http://www.payphone-project.com/?p=6545#comment-1383 Probably a Protel 8000 board in a Western Electric style housing. You mount a solar panel and put a battery in the pedestal base. A special GSM wireless adapter is connected to the phone, which can generate its own dial tone. Lots of payphones like this are installed to act as advertising kiosks but you never see it done in an L31 housing like this.

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