June 30, China Unicom has stopped all public telephone services, which includes the campus blue card, ordinary duty public telephone, other IC card and other public telephones, which means that accompanied us for nearly decades of public telephones become history.
Public telephones are a kind of public communication equipment introduced from abroad in the early 1990s, which can be used to make calls after inserting an IC card, which once solved the problem of people's difficulty in making calls. Especially on campus, IC card, campus card used to be a necessity for students, I'm a senior this year, I still used it in high school, the tears of the times.
Now there are a lot of related enterprises in China, these enterprises by regional distribution, Guangdong, Xinjiang, the number of public telephone service-related enterprises occupy the first and second place, which is only in Guangdong Province **** 33,000 public telephone enterprises, which also occupies the number of all public telephone enterprises in the country 27.26%.
Public **** phone industry in the past ten years the industry showed a precipitous decline, relevant data show that since 2010, the payphone industry has begun to decline. Since then the decade has been showing a precipitous decline, the average annual public **** phone business new registrations fell 22%.
Especially in the last six months, new registrations of payphone businesses have been consistently low, and because of the impact of the epidemic, there was also a stagnant situation.
Now the high popularity of the Internet, cell phones, so that a large number of enterprises engaged in public telephone services are facing the problem of transformation and upgrading, on this issue of our local also actively make changes. For example, in order to effectively utilize the distribution of public telephone booths in the Shanghai Municipal District, the relevant departments in the Shanghai public telephone booths on top of the installation of 5G small micro base station, so that it transformed into a 5G public telephone booths. This initiative can not only solve the 5G base station built on top of the building after the existence of the signal coverage of the blind spot problem, but also let has been struck by the public phone booths began to have *** enjoy charging, seat leisure and other new functions.