A telephone booth, phone booth, telephone kiosk, telephone call box, telephone box or public call box is a structure furnished with a payphone and designed for a telephone user's convenience; typicall
Replicas of British red telephone boxes in South Lake, Pasadena, California
Classic style mid-20th century American telephone booth in La Crescent, Minnesota, May 2012
Public telephone room, Miami, Florida, 1925, with a row of telephone booths seen along the back wall. Customers would request a call at the front desk; when the connection was made the customer would be directed to go to one of the booths for the call.
The KX series of telephone boxes in the United Kingdom was introduced by BT in 1985. Following the privatisation of BT in 1984, the company decided to create a newly designed and improved take on the
Telephone booth
…in the United Kingdom are now used for advertisements, bearing posters, with the development of "StreetTalk" by JCDecaux. This is in addition to the ST6 public telephone introduced in 2007 which is designed to feature a phone on one side and a JCDecaux-owned advertising space on the otherside. The advertising pays for…
KX100 telephone box with 1991 branding
An early KX100 kiosk (right) alongside a later Mk2 model (left).
A line of KX100 kiosks with the original logo and insignia, during the changeover from smoked glass to clear.