Germany wants to leave the past behind and will dismantle all telephone booths in the country.
It currently has around 12,000 booths in operation that hardly anyone uses anymore due to cell phones. However, some need it because not all of Germany has a mobile network with good coverage.
The dismantling of the cabins arouses nostalgic feelings in Germany. “I understand that they are being retired because maintenance costs money. But it’s a shame because a familiar image disappears from the city streets,” says Claus Bachmann, who collects public telephones. He has a hundred in his collection of him.
Chancellor Olaf Scholz announced that he would invest heavily in infrastructure so that Germany would stop being known as “the land of potholes and Dead spots“, which refers to loopholes in the network that make calling and using the Internet virtually impossible in some places.”
