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Published on 25 November 2025

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.

All data in this chapter is fully available under the ‘Facts and figures’ section below. A new layout for the telecommunications statistics pages is currently being prepared.