Re: EDICT: red and blue telephones

On 1/12/06 0:04, in article dq4o10$noa$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx,
"Annie" <ceo (at) fat24.com> wrote:

> "Paul Blay" <ask_me_or_get_spam_trapped@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> <dq3i87$9ue$1$830fa7a5@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Wed, 11 Jan 2006 18:19:51 -0000
>> 2. Apart from being 'red' or 'blue' is there no
>> other useful defining characteristic to describe
>> them?
>
> 赤電話はお店などに管理を委託しているものです。10円玉でかけていた時代はほ
> とんどこれでした。100円玉の入るものもありました。
> テレフォンカードの入る赤電話、というのはおそらく存在しないとおもいます。
>
> ちなみに、ピンク電話は一般加入電話を公衆用に使えるようにしたものです。


I'm way too lazy to read those, but I recall that in 1985 public phones were
color coded by how far you could call... Local, regional, national,
international. I can't remember which colors were which, because I didn't
really use public phones. They've got that typical Japanese amusement park
flavor though. Anybody else feel like Japan is a giant theme park?

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