Stepping out of a familiar shopping mall the other day, something different caught my eye as we reached the entrance: an Aussie Telstra public phone, freshly minted in its familiar orange livery, had replaced the American-made ‘payphone’ which previously stood in that corner. One small step for mankind, a huge step for commonsense and convenience.
Telstra phone box, Alice Springs
My travelling years have left me with something of a fetish about these mundane fixtures and their foreign incarnations, even though today’s traveller less often has to grapple with one. In Africa recently I picked up local prepaid SIM cards to use my mobile/cellphone more economically in Botswana and Zimbabwe.
The Travel Game 