Public phone booth "dead" IC card into a collection was fired to million

Once, one public phone booth on the roadside was an emotional line in the hands of migrant workers who came to work in Shanghai, reporting peace, vending homesickness, and resolving Acacia. Today, each street phone booth is still standing, but it is difficult to see the phone in the hands. People who refused to leave. On the other side of the street is the sight of people with low-spoken text messages and talking on the phone while walking. The IC phone booth has gradually been neglected and even forgotten by the public.

According to the telecommunications department, there are more than 9,000 public telephone booths distributed in the Shanghai Municipality, which are divided into coin-operated telephones and IC card telephones. The utilization rate has actually decreased significantly since a few years ago, and the turnover is also very poor. In contrast, IC cards were sold online, and a limited-edition IC card was even sold at a high price of 10,000 yuan.

How to get rid of the “dying death” status of the public telephone booths, the person in charge of telecommunications said that as one of the supporting facilities for city communications, the existence of IC telephone kiosks is still irreplaceable, and a significant drop in operating income is inevitable, but the telecommunications sector is trying hard to try. Telephone booth product upgrade innovation.

The busy telephone booths were lacking. On the afternoon of yesterday afternoon, the reporter saw a phone booth on the Tianshan Road where Mr. Qi was talking on the telephone booth. Mr. Qi came from Wenzhou and had just arrived in Shanghai two days ago. “Safety to Shanghai, take advantage of the free time today and call home to report peace.”

Mr. Qi is not without a mobile phone. However, because it is a foreign number to make calls to the home that require expensive roaming charges, the reason why I choose to use an IC telephone booth is to make calls cheap. "I usually have more than 10 minutes in a dozen. Using this can save a few bucks. The train bought a 30 yuan IC calling card at the mobile shop."

Reporters visited and found that in the central area of ​​Jingan, Huangpu, and so on, telephone booths are rarely used, and a telephone booth is almost unattended for a week. However, in areas such as the Shanghai Railway Station, bus stations, and schools with high traffic, many foreign tourists who have just arrived in Shanghai often use nearby telephone booths. "When we first arrived in Shanghai and hadn't had time to buy a local calling card, we would use the public telephone to fight. We could save the province," said a migrant worker who had just left the train.

It is also difficult for IC cards to be basically delisted and it is difficult to buy them. "Every time we go into stock, we get 2 or 3 shots, and we don't dare to take more. The reason why we can sell is that we are lucky enough to buy someone for a while. It is just to sell it, and now IC cards can't make money," said Wu Boss, a communications product store.

Wu boss came to Shanghai in 2004 to work hard, opened this communication product shop. According to Wu’s introduction, 2004 was the peak period for the use of IC public telephones. At that time, it was possible to sell more than 20 pieces in a week, and it was a kingpin product in the store. “At that time, not many people had mobile phones, let alone migrant workers. They all arrived at work in the telephone booths and kiosks at home to call at night.” Since the long-distance phone business was busy, Wu was also installed in the shop. The Ministry weighs long distance calls and the business is booming. "On the holiday, you need to wait in line to get a call."

However, with the rapid development of information technology, mobile communication equipment has been widely used, and public telephone booths have also passed the golden period. The booming business lasted two to three years. In 2008, these long distance calls were dismantled by Wu boss. IC cards also began to slowly fade away from the market.

At present, there are only a large number of IC cards sold in the newsstands in Shanghai's more remote areas and some construction sites. “Three years ago, I was in this newsstand. I sold IC cards all the time. Although the business in these two years was a little bleak, but because there are many migrant workers living nearby, the business is still OK. I can sell more than 10 a month. Zhang bar.” The reporter learned from the newsstand near Xi Hong Road subway station.

The kiosk sales situation in Jingan District was exactly the opposite. Newsstand owners all said that they did not sell IC phone cards two years ago. "Nobody buys at all, no money."

IC waste card online was scrambled to sky-price IC card in the sales market, although slowly faded, but in the collection market, more and more collectors and investors will look to the IC phone card.

At present, China Telecom has issued a total of 79 sets of IC telephone cards, including 5 sets of single cards, each set of 2-5 pieces, and more than 74 sets of cards, including many topics such as the zodiac, famous scenery, and different choices of IC cards. All of them are printed with different beautiful patterns, among which there are many landscapes of the country and many ancient paintings, which further set off the climax of the public collection and investment of IC telephone cards.

Search on Taobao. At present, a total of 199 stores sell IC phone cards at prices ranging from a few yuan to over ten thousand yuan. A set of Zunhuang suits for IC cards issued by China Telecom and Hong Kong Telecommunications Co., Ltd. to return to the motherland to commemorate the IC card, even out of the 46,000 yuan price. Since this card is in line with the return of Hong Kong, the simultaneous limited sale was very precious on July 1, 1997.

According to the reporter's understanding, most of the sellers only started to operate IC cards in recent years. Most of the phone cards sold are discarded cards that have already been used. The card has basically no amount and is expired. The shopkeepers purchased these waste cards from private vendors who had received the cards. After sorting and packing, they used the baby bar.

"The general package of IC theme cards is relatively easy to sell, and the prices will be higher, especially for some limited-sale prices." Generally such sets of cards are sold as a package, and the price is generally around one hundred yuan. And some fragmented single cards, the price will be relatively low, and some even just a few cents, for collectors, the cost is lower, so it is better to start.

According to professional collectors, the IC card's new card remains unclear in the world, and the market price is affected by the fluctuation of the supply source. There are certain risks. Many experts say that compared to investment, they prefer the collection of old IC cards.

The telephone booth is expected to draw on the information of the Expo Pavilion model telecommunications official said that the telecommunications sector is trying to try to upgrade the product innovation of the telephone booth. The World Expo Information Pavilion is a model that is worth learning from. There are 115 Expo information kiosks in the Expo Park, which are divided into 67 comprehensive kiosks and 48 kiosks.

These new information kiosks have added many functions compared to the previous IC kiosks, providing visitors with comprehensive communications, information and convenience services within the Expo site. Click on the interactive touch screen to inquire about the introduction of each pavilion's various pavilions, historical information of the Expo, venue activity information, park service navigation, and watch video news. In addition, the introduction of China Telecom and the introduction of service fees; at the same time, in addition to the IC card voice phone function In addition, you can also use one-touch dialing to order meals, book tickets, book tickets, and subscribe to the four major Chinese telecom service providers. Some of these services allow you to enjoy video customer services; map routes inside and outside the park It provides navigation for your trip.

In Pudong International Airport, there has been an increase in Internet information kiosks to meet the growing needs of people.

How foreign mobile phone kiosks change their ways to survive With the increasing development of mobile communication means, traditional public telephones are disappearing at a rapid pace around the world, and they are also faced with difficult problems.

In Japan, the two companies plan to set up 100,000 free public telephones in Japan for three years. When making this free public telephone call, the user first takes the handset and dials the telephone number he wishes to dial. After that, an advertisement of about 15 seconds will appear on the LCD screen, and the telephone will be connected. If you are calling a landline, you can call for 9 minutes for free; if you are on a cell phone, you can only call for 1 minute at most.

The red telephone booths everywhere in the United Kingdom were once one of the landmarks in the United Kingdom. As revenues continued to decline, British Telecom planned to dismantle some of the street telephone booths, and at the same time put other telephone booths to allow the public to “adopt,” and the adopting public could convert the telephone booths into other ones. use.

In the United States, because of the public nature of coin-operated telephone services, since 1996, the U.S. Federal Communications Commission has delegated the administration of coin-operated telephone services in some states to the local state governments.