Many booths in George Town left battered and broken


Ali showing a public phone in Pulau Tikus which is not working. — Photos: CHAN BOON KAI/The Star

REMEMBER when public telephones were an indispensable part of our lives?

Those were the days where there were only fixed telephone lines and some houses did not even have telephones.

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