Calling over the decades


Over the years, the look and use of the telephone has changed in Malaysia. Here is its evolution in the last 60 years.

 1950sCoin Collecting Box AB Black was the first public phone to be used in the country. Several versions of the AB Black phones were introduced throughout this decade. — FAIHAN GHANI/The Star.

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