Telstra payphones are now free for everyone to anywhere in Australia. As of 3 August , standard national and mobile calls are free of charge from all Telstra payphones. From 8 October , payphones will stop accepting coins. To make a call to international or other charged destinations, you have the option of using a Telstra Phonecard or other third-party calling cards.
Find out more about Telstra Phonecards. We provide around 15, public payphones throughout Australia which continue to provide valuable services to the community in an ever-changing digital world. Payphones have always been and continue to be a vital piece of social infrastructure that are a convenient beacon of safety and connection, especially for our most vulnerable and disadvantaged in the community.
We have a universal service obligation to ensure that payphones are reasonably accessible to all people in Australia, no matter where they live or conduct business. We allow for public consultation on the location of payphones and try to resolve any complaints. Here you'll find information on the public consultation process as well as how to make a complaint if you disagree with our final decision on a payphone location or removal.
Find out how to apply to have a new payphone installed, have the location of an existing payphone changed, or have an existing payphone removed. Find out how to report a Telstra payphone that's damaged or not working.
Also how to have a faulty Telstra Phonecard replaced. Our Teletypewriter TTY payphones enable people who are deaf or have a communication impairment to stay in touch when out and about. We will consult with the general public where we're proposing to either install a new payphone or to remove an existing payphone.
Information regarding current proposals may be accessed by opening the documents attached below. Where no documents are attached under either of the proposal types, that means there are no current proposals.
The following process and timeframes will apply where Telstra has made a final decision about the proposed installation or removal of a payphone:. If you disagree with Telstra's decision, you must lodge a complaint with Telstra about that decision within 20 working days from the date when Telstra provided its written notification of the final decision.
We will provide an acknowledgement and a complaint reference number within 5 working days of receiving the complaint. Telstra will provide a response, in writing, to the complaint within 20 working days of receiving the complaint. If the complaint is in relation to a decision to remove a payphone, then it must relate to a decision where the removal would result in no other payphone remaining at that location.
If you are dissatisfied with Telstra's response to the complaint in relation to a final decision regarding a payphone removal proposal, you may lodge an objection with the ACMA within 10 working days from when Telstra provides its written response to that complaint.
For information about making an enquiry or lodging a complaint in a language other than English, please visit our Multicultural services. I haven't used a pay phone in years so I dunno if they're still that way or not. You know it really sucks that payphones are going away, because when I travel internationally I use the hell out of them. I can't even get service for my cell phone in Japan or Korea so I'm always using payphones there. I know when my friends from overseas travel here in the U.
Good times, good times When I was in Dallas, the payphones wouldn't work for incoming or outgoing after pm due to drug dealers. Oh yeah, the phone companies are somewhat smaller, but still evil. I have judged you and I have not found you wanting. If anything, I wish I knew this trick when I was scrounging for every quarter I could find. It's a "pay" phone, right? So the phone co. Around here, just finding a payphone can be hell It happened in Toronto the same way it happened to Aurich in S.
F: Payphones slowly stopped being able to take calls. I think there is a website out there that has a list of payphones that take incoming calls? I used to play with payphones and ringback when I was in grade school. By the time I got to high school there was a different trick: To make a free call at a payphone, unscrew the speaker from the ear piece. Dial your number, and just as it was about to try to connect, ground one of the speaker terminals to the phone.
Bingo- saved yourself a quarter that was better put to use playing Gauntlet at the arcade elf needs food badly! That's the trick that the Matthew Broderick used in War Games in the middle of nowhere.
Except he grounded the terminal to get dialtone, then dialed the number. Ahh the Google cache I don't think I follow. Why can't you call payphones anymore? Die fast. Ars Tribunus Angusticlavius et Subscriptor. Richard Berg. Ars Legatus Legionis et Subscriptor.
Originally posted by andy: Is this a new change? Originally posted by Frennzy: I remember a bank of four payphones in my little tiny town. Kung Fu Karl. Originally posted by Semi On: quote:. Creative Director et Subscriptor. Originally posted by bombcar: Payphones can be owned by the telco or privately owned, and can have all sorts of restrictions placed on them.
Originally posted by RCook: I remember from back in high school I knew a trick that involved dialing the number of the payphone or maybe it was last 4 digits of payphone and then depressing the 'tounge' or what ever the hell the handle pushes down about half way, then you would get a high-pitched tone. Latest News Allianz Australia turns to 'stewards' to build its data culture ACT eyes greater gov IT foresight with new business architecture Security vendor stirs controversy using undisclosed flaw for months Aussies less trusting with data in wake of Covid Suspected gov hackers behind 'watering hole' attacks in Hong Kong.
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