Why are roadside fixed telephone booths common in developed countries not common in China?

First of all, foreigners will choose this fixed line, actually because its price is cheaper than mobile phone dialing, so in order to reduce the usual telephone bill, people in these western countries may prefer to use these public telephones.

Second, because their operators don't cover enough signal stations, sometimes they can't find external signals with smart phones. This is not bragging. Friends who may have been abroad can know that even in some developed countries such as Europe and America, mobile phones often have no signal. So at this time, it is also very convenient to make a phone call from a public phone.

For example, in Britain, we can also see some classic red telephone booths, which are also very convenient for people. Back in China, under the competition of the three major operators, China's network has spread all over the country, so this kind of public telephone has no market in most parts of China, and the end of being scoured can be imagined.

On the other hand, public telephone booths need maintenance, and the maintenance cost is also high. If we spend money on this every year, we will lose more than we gain. We can get a very intuitive data here, that is, more than 70% of the base stations in the world are built in China. So even in some very remote rural mountainous areas, we can find telephone signals, not to mention people living in cities.

Maybe when we talk about public telephone booths now, some people have forgotten this once ubiquitous thing in life after 00. Once, before the popularity of mobile phones, we had to make phone calls at home, usually through public telephones.

So, about 20 years ago, public telephones were a communication tool everywhere. For example, in the street, we can see that many shops have such fixed telephones or some telephone booths, which are also common elements in the street. But now in our country, this kind of public telephone is rare, and even has completely disappeared in some cities.