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What happened to the phone booths? (fedia.io)

submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I’m not talking about the telco landline phone booths that were probably around in the 1990s. I think it was ~5—10 years or so ago that there were many hole-in-the-wall convenience shops that had phone booths. I never used them but I’m not liking GSM voice prices so I wanted to try them out. I assume they are cheap voip lines.

But I cannot find any now. I saw 6 or so (what I think are) phone booths in a Ria money transfer shop, but they were taped off and out of use. Anyone know of any that still exist?

I found this but I think they are just talking about telco serviced phones:

https://www.thebulletin.be/public-phone-boxes-thing-past-belgium

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Lycamobile has prepaid plans for 8€ per month: https://www.lycamobile.be/fr/bundles/forfait-prepaye/#pass-nationaux

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Indeed but the Lycamobile bundles bring the use-it-or-lose-it detriment. You get a good measured rate if you buy the 8€ bundle (by dialing *1392000#), but the minutes you get from the bundle are use-it-or-lose-it before 1 month. I am confused about some things because Lycamobile’s 8€ deal is exclusively online, according to a shop selling Lyca. The shop said paying cash for a top-up in a shop has a min of €10. Not a big deal, but the bigger problem is 8€ is the smallest bundle Lyca offers. So in my case I would basically be subject to unbundled prices (IIUC):

https://www.lycamobile.be/fr/rates/national/

12—20 €c/min, and it looks complicated to know what the cost is. There are two different prices for non-Lyca callees & the distinction is unclear.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Interesting.

So an Orange top-up for €15 would last me longer than 3 months.

Just reading your comment above, you're good with Orange top-up then?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

I’m not happy with Orange’s 15 €c/min. Hence why I was looking for a phone booth option. But yes, Orange seems to be my best option given my constraints and what I know. (Or Ello… not sure about Ello because I see no shops selling it)

What I know about is basically limited to the prepaid services listed here:

http://web.archive.org/web/20240222003936/https://www.bipt.be/consumers/list-of-mobile-operators

I would be interested in any prepaid services missing from that page.