Public telephone

Public telephone

From Jurnal Indonesia

Out of service public phones are no longer a problem. Why?
Because usually public phone stands are hard to reach, and if any
can be reached, they are normally unusable. It's a common view
that public phones are broken because of vandalism.

Therefore, many people prefer to make their calls in telephone
shops (wartels). Before a wartel was used if one wanted to make a
long distance call, but now the wartel is commonly used to make
local calls, and the calling time is no longer limited.

Now, wartels are flourishing and it's very easy to find one on
the street.

This is beneficial to the state telecommunications company,
Telkom, and wartel owners. But as a consumer I expect Telkom not
to reduce the public phone service, because public phone stands
are still needed in many circumstances. One thing to be
considered is the choice of locations.

SINTA WIJAYANTI

Bogor, West Java