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Some cute older payphone pix from Italy sent
in by Paolo Favaretti.Click here for full
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IPM Italy
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Mafia message..... |
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Very modern phone booth in Rome |
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Booth in village |
1999-TUO Indoor payphone
Special Mention- Design Preis Schweiz |
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riot police lurking behind..... |
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DESIGNED FROM GIUGIARO NEW
PAYPHONE TELECOM ITALY "Digito" is called the public telephone of new generation that Telecom has installed in the Italian cities. Planned from the Giugiaro Design, it is the fruit of a careful search that conjugates high technology to a winning design; it has an elegant shape and modern
design to the characteristics of solidity and robustness, indispensable in order to contrast the possible actions of
vandalism. The apparatus (that uses ISDN technology ) is equipped of a fixed part for the cards and of an other for the coins; in the frontal zone it has wide display and a keyboard that, beyond with the common functions, concurs to converse with the portable computers; the microtelephone is inserted in a lateral niche and, thought in an ignited tonality of red, it represents also an allegro decorative element. Digito is a innovation in the field of the public telephony also for the flexible modalities of payment: it will be able to be paid, in fact, it is with it puts into effect to them to weave them telephone magnetic, it is with the new instruments soon available, that is endowed weaving of microchip and the credit cards. The Giugiaro Design is always expanding more the own area than infuence; through the recent agreement
signed with the Guangzhou Motors Group, factory of motorcycles of the province of Guangdong, in fact, shows oneself on the Chinese market. And in order it is introduced better also has renewed completely the just situated one: a business card in perfect business style that it offers, between the other, images of the creativity, information on the new plans, the main customers? |
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These phones were like robots from '60's
shows! |
1994 IPM Italy
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1987 IPM Italy
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Hands-free trial from '60s. |
Booth for disabled |
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The telephone is a large part of Italian life, particularly with the
advent of the cell phone. Most Italians, including many children, now have
cell phones, which are relatively inexpensive. In addition, there are
public phones everywhere, which are activated solely by telephone cards
(purchased from a card dispenser, a newsstand or a tabacchi). All
coin-operated public phones have disappeared since the advent of the Euro.
Visitors should be aware that calls made from traditional home phones
can be quite expensive, and the home phone bill is not delineated call by
call, so reimbursement is difficult. Although a host will politely allow a
visitor to use the home phone, the visitor should do so rarely and then
should keep the call as short as possible. A visitor should chat on cell
phones or from a pay phone and not from a host's home.
One answers the telephone by saying Pronto, which literally
means "ready". After saying hello, one should introduce oneself
by name before asking for the person to whom one wishes to speak. It is
appropriate to use the formal "you" form of address (third
person singular or plural) when speaking with either parents or someone at
the end of the phone who is a stranger. One frequently uses terms of
formal address even when one knows the adult answering the phone
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THE
RANGE OF THE TELEPHONES PUBLICS ALBACOM
Sophisticated
in the sturdy design and in the structure, the Albacom
telephones accept the Italian coins, the main foreign coins
(predisposition for the Euro), the telephone cards Albacom
from 5,000 L. and L. the 10,000 (first cards with micro chip
in Italy).
The management at a distance, through the center of Albacom
control, reduces lessened the swindle risk and guarantees
one service continuity.
Telephone
card for telephones Albacom publics
1.
To insert the card in the direction of the arrow with
the microchip turned towards the high.
2.
To use the card solo from the telephones Albacom
publics
3.
To control on display the credit to your disposition
and to compose the wished telephone number
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Rotor
2000
(to
right)
Rotor
2000 is the generation of finishes them telephone publics
develops to you from IPM with Albacom on the base of beyond
12 years of research and development. The innovative
ingegneristiche solutions are fruit of great experience BT
Payphone, protagonist of the telecommunicationses in Great
Britain and in a position to supplying decidedly advanced
performances.
Rotor
2000 offers simple and diversified modality to you of
payment: Italian currency, main foreign coins, telephone
cards Albacom and the greater credit cards . Rotor 2000
possesses moreover multiple keys function (volume, chosen of
the language, repetition last number, resumption line
without riagganciare, called for attendance).
Rotor
2000 is indicated also for external atmospheres does not
watch, because equipped of a structure antivandalismo to you
and sophisticated systems antiswindle.
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Webphone
E' the
telephone World Wide Web (WWW), the public telephone of the
future of IPM and Albacom that concurs also the access with
Internet.
This
happens in simple and fast way with one interface of type
"Touch Screen": touching the hyperlink visualized
the browsing can be carried out.
The access to the Internet services can happen through a
whichever Provider.
Webphone,
for its small dimensions, particularly is indicated in all
inner atmospheres.
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Range
APOLLO
Range
APOLLO of Albacom consists in one series of modular lodgings
for telephones publics, to the vanguard for flexibility and
praticità. Draft therefore of one telephone structure to
high quality and of innovative design, studied for a better
service with many advantages in more.
Apollo
1 for inner
Apollo
is studied for whichever customer, included the disabili. A
single illuminated panel offers to all the information on
the Albacom service.
The
cabins, the modular structure (single, double or
personalized unit), are in stainless steel, rifinite in the
minimums details and very illuminated for an easy and sure
use.
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Espalier
walls them
The
espalier walls represents them the support more agile and
simple to install.
It does not have pedestal, but it can be applied directly to
the wall.
In the
advanced part it has a panel to you wrap illuminated.
Of easy installation, the espalier walls them is ideal for
narrow spaces and inner atmospheres.
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EXTERNAL
ACCLIMATIZATION:
Cabin
The
cabin sluice highly introduces an innovative design beyond
supplying numerous intelligent solutions.
The
cabins sluices are very isolated acoustic and offer the
maximum of the privacy, are equipped of a small seat in
order to allow the persons conversare in way much
comfortable one and have a system of lighting system in a
position to increasing the comfort during the telephone
call.
The
cabins and the telephones moreover are supplied of
sophisticated structures antivandalismo and modern systems
antiswindle.
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Apollo
2 for exteriors
E' the
Apollo version for external atmospheres.
To the
characteristics of Apollo 1, to the roof and the lateral
cover join in order to offer shelter from rain, wind or sun.
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You need a phone card to use
pay phones in Italy. These can be purchased at most tobacco stores and
bars. They are in denominations of lire - I have only seen 5,000 and
10,000 - and are only valid for two or three years from date of purchase
(an expiry date is printed on them).
To use the card, snap off the perforated corner. The
card shown to the right has the corner snapped off. This allows it to fit
into the slot on the phone and "activates" the card. When you
purchase a card, be sure the corner is not snapped off - this way you know
the card has not been used.
Most telephones in Italy need phone cards (see
above). Insert the card into the phone (in that slot to the right of the
top of the receiver) and the screen at the top of the phone tells you how
much lire you have left on the card. Make your call and watch it count
down through the lire. When you hang up the card comes out the slot at the
bottom of the phone.
Some
of the new phones have a panel above the phone explaining in English how
to use the phone. It shows which cards can be used, where they are sold,
and lists emergency numbers.
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The first official Italian telephone tokens appeared in the first half of the 20th century and in Italy the
STIPEL (Società Telefonica Interregionale Piemontese e Lombarda) introduced the first telephone tokens to the
Fair of Milan in 1927. The experiment with little public phones for city telephone calls worked with tokens of
three grooves, at the cost of 60 cts of lira. The success of the experiment made that the public phones were
multiplied and in the years succeeding the TIMO (Società Telefoni Medio Orientale) and the TELVE
(Società
Telefonica delle Venezie) imitated the STIPEL. The TETI (Telefonica Tirrena) began from 1930 to introduce
public phones working with coins of 50 cts. In 1935 the TETI changed to coin tokens made of aluminum and
subsequently of zinc of the dimensions of the currency coins and without grooves. During 1945 the TETI unified
itself to the other societies with a token with three grooves. The fifth company that coined telephone tokens
in Italy was the SET (Società Esercizi Telefonici) in the south of Italy. The tokens issued in this period
belong to the "first period" of Italian telephone tokens. After a telephonic reform, when monopoly incumbent
SIP joined all the previous telephone companies, the public phones were standardized and the ESM company
(Emilio Senesi Medaglie, Milan), began to coin regular telephone tokens for of Italy. From August of 1959 the
ESM, added the group year-month, so could be distinguished the time. The four figures indicate the year and
the month of coinage. As an example, 5909 indicates that the token has been coined in September 1959. This
kind of token was coined till March 1972 with 122 different dates. Those tokens belong to the "second period".
Subsequently, increasing the number of the public phones, also the IPM (Industria Politecnica Meridionale in
Arzano, Naples), CMM (Costruzioni Minuterie Metalliche, Santagata Catania) and the UT (Urmet Costruzioni
Elettrotelefoniche Turin) began to coin tokens until November 1980, last one known (IPM 8011). They coined the
tokens with the manufacturers' logo in addition to the year/month group. In the 1970s telephone tokens ended
up substituting standard coins of the same 200 lire denomination. In 1972 one token was manufactured for each
Italian; by 1978 there were seven tokens produced per head of population. Between 1927 and 1980, the year when
tokens ceased to be manufactured and the first dual-function phonecard/token telephones were introduced, a
total of around 600 million tokens were issued in Italy. On 31 December 2001 the telephone token was finally,
definitively taken out of circulation.
THANKS TO Marco Fiumani! |
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