Public telephones

Public telephones represent all public equipment with prepayment (by cash and smart cards). With the increasing popularity of the mobile telephone, the demand for public telephones and the telephony traffic established from public telephones have decreased constantly since 1998. From 2019 onwards, statistical data is no longer collected for this service. We are leaving the table below in place as an intermediate archive.

Number of public telephones in Switzerland as of 31.12 (Table IF3)
Year Public Private under the responsibility of the TSPs Total
2014 4'412 5'158 9'570
2015 4'037 4'497 8'534
2016 3'553 3'623 7'176
2017 2'960 1'850 4'810
2018 1'181 848 2'029
2019 0 0 0

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Last modification 20.12.2023

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