Experts: Moscow payphones, which seem to have become an atavism, are still needed by the city. Do street payphones work in NVA? our correspondent found out Where there are vending machines with telephones

Fashion & Style 26.08.2019

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1 Flotskaya st., 1
2 Leningradskoe sh., 112 (entrance to Globus Gourmet store)
3 Leningradskoe sh., 112 (entrance to the store 7th continent)
4 Leningradskoe sh., 96, building 1
5 Leningradskoe sh., 94, building 1
6 Festivalnaya st., 13, building 1 (near the shopping center "U Rechnoy")
7 Festivalnaya st., 2a
8 Leningradskoe sh., 132A (Supermarket ATAK)
9 Smolnaya st., 63 (entrance to TVC "Extreme")
10 Leningradskoe sh., 100
11 Festivalnaya st., 2b
12 Leningradsky prospect, 10
13 Leningradsky prospect, 18
14 Leningradsky prospect, 24
15 Leningradsky prospect, 33, building 4
16 Leningradskoe shosse, 15
17 Leningradskoe shosse, 8, building 3
18 Ganetsky sq., d.1a
19 Leningradsky prospect, 56
20 Leningradsky prospect, 60
21 Leningradsky prospect, 62
22 Grizodubovaya st., 2
23 Grizodubova st., 2
24 Khoroshevskoe sh., 82
25 Khoroshevskoe sh., 84
26 Kuusinen St., 2, building 1
27 Khoroshevskoe sh., 20b, building 1
28 Khoroshevskoe sh., d. 5
29 Leningradsky prospect, metro station Dynamo (northern exit)
30 Leningradsky prospect, 37, building 12
31 Leningradsky prospect, 39a
32 Khoroshevskoe sh., 39, building 26
33 Khoroshevskoe sh., 33/1, building 26
34 Khoroshevskoe sh., 35
35 Dmitrovskoe sh., 25, building 4
36 Butyrskaya st., 79
37 Butyrskaya st., 77, building 2
38 Butyrskaya st., 53, building 1
39 Leningradsky prospect, 52
40 Leningradsky prospect, 76a
41 Dmitrovskoe sh., 19, building 2
42 Dmitrovskoe highway, 5/1
43 Dmitrovskoe sh., 29, building 1
44 Dmitrovskoe sh., 105, building 1
45 Dmitrovskoe sh., 94, building 1
46 Dmitrovskoe sh., 15, building 1
47 Dmitrovskoe sh., 40, building 1
48 Dmitrovskoe sh., d. 58
49 Dmitrovskoe sh., 74, building 1
50 Dmitrovskoe sh., 98
51 Dmitrovskoe sh., 108, building 24
52 Dmitrovskoe sh., 21, building 1
53 Dmitrovskoe highway, 85
54 Dmitrovskoe sh., 131
55 Lobnenskaya st., 4a
56 Butyrskaya st., 84
57 Dubninskaya st., 38
58 Dubninskaya st., 32
59 Dubninskaya st., 2, building 1
60 Dubninskaya st., 2, building 6
61 Dubninskaya st., 6
62 Dubninskaya st., 73, building 2
63 Dubninskaya st., 30, building 1
64 Dubninskaya st., 10, building 1
65 Dubninskaya st., 24, building 1
66 Beskudnikovskiy Boulevard, 40/1
67 Bolshaya Akademicheskaya st., 44, building 4
68 Bolshaya Akademicheskaya st., 77, building 1
69 Bolshaya Akademicheskaya st., 73, building 1
70 Butyrskaya st., 60
71 Ozhnezhskaya st., 8
72 Ozhnezhskaya st., 18
73 Lavochkina, d.56
74 Theater alley, 3, building 1
75 Khodynsky Boulevard, 3
76 Grizodubova st., 2
77 Grizodubova st., 4, building 1
78 Leningradsky prospect, 34
79 Leningradsky prospect, 36
80 Leningradsky prospect, 74 building 1
81 Kronshtadsky boulevard, 3, building 3
82 Kronstadsky Blvd., 7 (near KFC)
83 Admiral Makarov St., 14/2
84 Onezhskaya st., 28/1
85 Onezhskaya st., 38, building 1
86 Petrozavodskaya st., 13, building 1
87 Kronstadsky Boulevard, 47
88 Kronstadsky Boulevard, 7
89 Festivalnaya st., 2a (opposite the southern exit of the Rechnoy Vokzal metro station)
90 Novopeschanaya st., 8, building 1
91 Kuusinen St., 8a
92 Festivalnaya st., 8
93 Smolnaya st., 35
94 Leningradsky prospect, 31
95 Begovaya st., 18
96 Begovaya st., 22
97 Timiryazevskaya st., 1.
98 Beskudnikovsky Boulevard, 22.
99 Beskudnikovsky Blvd., 32, building 6
100 Perovsko Razumovskaya al., 2
101 Moscow al. intersection with Teatralnaya al.
102 Theatrical alley, property 1, building 1
103 Leningradsky prospect, 33, building 3
104 Petrozavodskaya st., 19
105 Mikhalkovskaya st., 4
106 Begovaya st., 32
107 Leningradsky pr. between pedestrian crossings next to the southern exit of the Dynamo metro
108 Leningradsky pr. closer to the North exit of the Dynamo metro
109 Theater alley, vlad.1.str.1
110 Leningradskoe sh. near the pedestrian crossing on the opposite side from the main entrance to the territory of the Northern River Station
111 Lerirgradskoe sh. opposite the main entrance to the Northern River Station near the pedestrian crossing
112 Begovaya st., 17
113 Leningradsky prospect, 37, building 3
114 Leningradsky pr., 37, building 11
115 Leningradsky prospect, 44
116 Korovinskoe sh., 16
117 Korovinskoe sh., 20, building 1
118 Leningradsky prospect, 44, building 1
119 Leningradsky prospect, 62
120 Leningradsky prospect, 64
121 Leningradsky prospect, 66
122 Leningradskoe sh., 64, building 1
123 1st Novopodmoskovny lane, 2, building 1

In total, according to the information of the operator of the project, the XXI century - TV company, 109 booths of the People's Telephone are already operating in Moscow and the region. Another 56 (48 in Moscow and 8 in cities near Moscow) have been installed, but are not yet operational. Mainly due to technical delays in obtaining the necessary documentation from local authorities and (or) due to untimely connection to the power supply by energy companies. In total - 165.

In Moscow, the highest concentration of cabins is in the SAO. In the Moscow region, the most "people's telephone" cities are Odintsovo (17 booths, of which 11 are working) and Korolev (14 and 13 booths, respectively).

Six more have been installed in Vidnoye and one in Naro-Fominsk.

In the mobile era, telephone operators and the state are not ready to abandon the usual payphones. In Moscow, this business balances on the verge of profitability, but allows you to provide communication in emergency situations. True, it is not so easy to buy a card for a payphone.

The heyday of Moscow payphones came in the 1980s, when there were more than 32,000 payphones in the city. Now there are ten times fewer of them: about 3 thousand - at MGTS, another 100 - at Comstar (mainly at airports, hotels and shopping malls). Rostelecom had another 500 machines in Moscow, but on October 30 last year, the company dismantled the last machine. The company explains: people have practically stopped using payphones.

MGTS does not agree with the thesis about the uselessness of payphones. “As life has shown, in critical conditions, payphones remain practically the only available and working street means of communication,” says Vyacheslav Golovanov, chief specialist of the MGTS payphone network department. According to him, last year, on the day of the double terrorist attack in the metro, the number of calls from payphones in the Central Administrative District doubled, in the area of ​​the affected stations - five times. Golovanov also refers to foreign experience: “Reports from the USA, Chile, and Japan highlighted that payphones are the only means of communication for the affected population.”

In "peaceful" time, about 100 thousand calls are made from city payphones every month. Approximately a quarter of them are calls to emergency services. Most of the remaining calls fall on calls within Moscow. “The cell phone has run out of power - please, there is a payphone, and these services are still in demand for low-income segments of the population,” Golovanov is sure.

Of the 3,000 pay phones in Moscow, 625 provide "universal communication services." These are red devices, which are installed as part of the program of the Russian government. They issue special universal cards. Universality is that devices and cards are the same throughout the country. The Federal Communications Agency regulates the cost of local calls and reimburses operators for operating these payphones. For example, a call in Moscow from a universal payphone using a universal card will cost 57 kopecks. By regular map You can also call MGTS from a universal payphone (although it will cost more). But the opposite cannot be done.

Muscovite Denis Ivanov got into a situation, from which, in theory, payphones should help out - the battery on his mobile ran out, and he needed to call urgently.

He found a payphone, but he failed to buy a card for it. “I asked at the metro ticket office, ran around the kiosks - they shrugged everywhere,” he recalls. MGTS confirms that telephone cards are no longer sold in the metro, they are in the kiosks of the former Soyuzpechat, but not in all. Experts advise looking for cards in post offices, kiosks at railway stations and in the subscriber rooms of telephone nodes.

Almost 400 Moscow payphones still accept coins.

But these phones cannot be placed on the street, because due to the temperature difference, the device may not recognize the coin, they say in MGTS.

Another payment method is bank cards, including a Muscovite social card. They are accepted by almost all payphones. When dialing a number, the device will reserve 170 rubles on the card. - This is the cost of one minute at the highest rate. If the conversation does not take place, the amount will remain frozen until someone calls from this payphone again using bank card. “Money from the card will not be lost,” Golovanov assures.

Moscow payphones offer the possibility not only to make calls, but also to send sms and email(both cost 12 rubles per message). The MN correspondent managed to send sms from a payphone without any problems, but there were difficulties with e-mail. A coin-operated payphone in the underpass of the Rimskaya metro station allowed me to type the text of the message and press “ok”, then I thought and, instead of writing “message sent”, ordered me to hang up. The letter didn't arrive.

With a universal payphone at the "Park Kultury" things went more fun. The device even offered message templates (in Latin): “I can’t get through”, “Contact me”, “Happy Holidays!”, “Good luck!” and I love you". The MN correspondent chose a template and, without adding anything to it, sent it. The letter arrived, but without the ability to determine the sender.

In universal payphones, it became possible - "like in America" ​​- to receive calls. The number (ordinary Moscow) of a particular payphone is written next to it (the list of all numbers is on the Rossvyaz website). The MN correspondent tested this option on the same payphone at the Park of Culture. Bottom line: calls really go through, the audibility from the landline phone is good, from the payphone - worse. Vyacheslav Golovanov from MGTS says that payphones receive hundreds of calls every month, and their number is growing. The company is now analyzing who is in demand for this service.

The Moscow police department says that telephone terrorists often call from payphones, reporting allegedly planted bombs, but this is not the only type of communication they use. “It is a delusion that it is impossible to calculate a call from a payphone,” the police emphasize. “Each payphone has a location where the outfit goes.”

In 2002, MGTS tried to install payphones with Internet access. As part of the pilot project, ten "web payphones" were installed. Although they were not popular, the idea was not abandoned. The company promises that by the end of the year payphones will appear in Moscow, which will have access to the Internet (but for more than high speed), a payment terminal, possibly a socket for charging a mobile phone.

“The payphone business is balancing on the verge of profitability and unprofitability, so we have to look for new forms and new types of services in order to attract customers,” says Vyacheslav Golovanov from MGTS. Experts believe that payphones should be preserved in any case. “This should be supported by the state, because it is not a business, but rather a social thing,” says Eldar Murtazin, a leading analyst at Mobile Research Group. - Payphones are needed in the subway, in public places. During a terrorist attack or other emergency mobile communication quickly fails due to congestion. And payphones continue to work. “We cannot proceed from the hypothesis that everyone always has a mobile phone,” Dmitry Gordeev, an expert at the Institute of Urban Economics, agrees. - For emergencies, albeit rare, payphones should be.

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In the distant 90s, in addition to my main job, I made a living by manufacturing and selling AONs (phones with caller ID). I lived in a small provincial town of up to 50 thousand inhabitants. For spare parts for AONs, he went to Moscow, to the radio market, which at that time was located in Tushino. Thanks to my hobby, I had an idea about the operation of telephone networks.
It all started with a note in the newspaper "Arguments and Facts" bought at the railway station to pass the time. In it, I read a note about 2 foreigners who were caught making international calls from a regular payphone. It sunk into my head, I began to think how it could be implemented.
At that time, the vast majority of payphones did not have a telephone number (not determined by AONs) or had a telephone number with category “3” (without the right to access long-distance communications). From the payphone it was not possible to call long-distance. I checked the international payphones in the city, they were all on regular telephone numbers with category "1". The telephone number of the international payphone was written in the booth on a special nameplate.
My home phone belonged to the oldest PBX of the three in our city, unlike other PBXs in the city, it was not determined by AONs, and in order to call long distance I had to dial 8 the phone number I want to call, my phone number. The PBX disconnected me, and redialed me again, then connected to the dialed number.

I want to note that in the mid-90s I read about the Internet only in computer magazines, and in our city there was not a single provider. There was no place to get information from, it was not published in magazines either.
I understood that intercity access is provided by an intercity PBX located in the regional center, and in order to know where to bill the phone, after dialing, it gives out its number in tone mode. At one of the automatic telephone exchanges in our city, this answer was heard. Multi-frequency tone before the buzzer, it was not heard on the other PBX.

Together with a friend, we recorded the answer of his ATS on a cassette recorder. I went home and after dialing 8 I tried to play it through a capacitor into the telephone line, nothing worked out for me. I again went into thought, among the many thoughts and conjectures, one appeared, the problem was the discrepancy between the playback speeds of tape recorders and the mismatch of frequencies. The next day I was already at home with a friend's tape recorder. After the 8-ki and playing the tone signal on the line, I heard the buzzer of the international station. I didn't believe my success. Tried again - buzzer. I decided to make a long distance call. The call went through, I talked with my friend from another city. Joy knew no bounds. I was looking forward to a friend's printout for his long distance phone calls. It turned out to be a long-distance conversation that I made from my phone. Now I could make long distance calls at the expense of a friend.

I understood the principle of operation and I had a working prototype. Now it was necessary to create a device that generated the desired tonalities in a line. Later I learned that this device is called "Bluebox", and Steve Wozniak invented it 15 years before me. And if you believe the Internet, they were once traded by Steve Jobs and Bill Gates. Back then, because I didn't have internet, I didn't know that. And I had to invent everything myself.

In a couple of months, I created a digital device that converted the dialed number into a tone sequence. I got the opportunity to make long distance / international calls for free by substituting other numbers. First, I substituted the numbers of our local payphones, then the telephone numbers of the regional payphones to confuse the traces.

Even when my phone was transferred to a digital PBX, I managed to substitute another number, although not with 100% probability.
And it all ended with the advent of the Internet, mobile phones, long-distance communication became not so expensive, maybe I began to receive enough money to pay for it, or maybe I just grew up.
"Bluebox" is most likely lying around somewhere in the garage, if it has not been thrown out, it has not caught the eye for a long time.

The "People's Telephone" project captures Moscow and the region.

People's Telephone entered Moscow from the north: free payphone booths were the first to be tested in the Northern District. In the Moscow region, the geography of the "People's Telephone" is more diverse: the first devices were offered to the residents of Odintsovo, then they began to install such devices in Korolev, Vidnoye, Naro-Fominsk. Further - everywhere.

Mobile phone on the wire

In fact, the "People's Phone" is an ordinary mobile phone, which was placed in the booth of a traditional payphone. And accordingly, the handset is connected to the apparatus by a telephone cord. However, appearance of the current booths excludes analogies with the old pay phones, so familiar to the older generation. The very ones for which the people stored two-kopeck coins and for which a queue usually lined up.

The new ones have two highlights. First of all, the mentioned free. It is, of course, relative: say, a guest worker will not be able to call home, to Moldova or Tajikistan. Although in the future the authors of the project promise to think about both long-distance and international telephone communications. But such calls will definitely not be free, and the design of already installed devices does not provide for bill, coin and card acceptors. However, it is technically not a problem to install the necessary "commercial" devices. There would be demand. In the meantime, this machine can talk for free for an hour only within Moscow and the region.

The second highlight: in the near future they will provide access to the Internet through the People's Telephone, including WiFi technology. Which, again, from a technical point of view, is not at all difficult, the main thing is that in each specific place where the booth stands, there should be a stable and high-quality signal. After all, we recall that we are dealing with a banal wireless GSM phone, and mobile communications have not only advantages, but also costs.

TT system

Officials have a saying: any city on the planet has three main problems, and everything starts with the letter T - taxis, telephones, toilets. It is easy to see that it is in this sequence that the city solves problems. The first "T" is half closed: Moscow is now actively engaged in illegal cab drivers, according to the plans of the authorities, by the end of this year the number of law-abiding taxi drivers in the city will reach 25-30 thousand, that is, more than half of the taxis will come out of the shadows into the light.

Now they have taken up the second "T": however, the simplicity of solving the problem is very relative. It's not that it's hard to install such booths all over the city. Technically, it's not difficult. But if the city knows quite accurately, say, the need for the same taxis, then no one can say exactly how many "People's Phones" the city needs. Time and practice will tell.

Anna Titova, director general of the project operator company, explains that the People's Telephone development program is divided into three stages, one year each. Now we are at the stage of installing hundreds of booths (only in 23 cities of the Moscow region there will be 500 of them, plus 150-200 payphones in each district of Moscow).

At the second stage, "People's Telephone" will come to small settlements, including those that today, from the point of view of signalmen, are low-margin. And the three-year project will end with the creation of a single information center to provide residents with any reference data throughout the Moscow region. We will be able to receive any necessary information, public services, commercial and social services on such a phone, but again within the Moscow region. In addition, "People's Telephone" will be included in the "Safe City" program at the final stage.

The booths themselves will change somewhat: in addition to telephones, multifunctional terminals will be installed in them, where it will be possible to pay for services, duties, and fines. And, of course, the phone provides access to emergency city services.

The first "People's Telephone" was launched in November near the metro station "Rechnoy Vokzal" and immediately won the sympathy of the townspeople. Symbolic appeals appeared on the site of the SAO prefecture: citizens are urgently asked to put the same phone in our house. Moreover, our people are very inventive, they come up with "good reasons." For example, there are a lot of newcomers in the district who are hooligans and destroy everything around: "We are forced to constantly contact the operational services, and it's expensive to call grandmothers!"

The authorities note that the project is being implemented without attracting budgetary funds. The company that places advertisements on the panels of the booth pays for the installation of booths and communication services. Actually, the payphones themselves are made in the format of light boxes, and this is a term from the dictionary not of signalmen, but of advertisers. In fact, this is not so much a payphone as advertising panels that form a kind of booth. They look good, quite harmoniously fit into the urban environment.

Lightboxes fully meet the needs of people with disabilities, the cabin can be accessed by a wheelchair, and the device itself is at a convenient height for them.

While the question remains open: 60 minutes of conversation - isn't it too much? After all, if everyone starts chatting for an hour, then you will get tired of standing in line at such a payphone. However, the project was conceived not for teenagers, who are already doing well with communications. And it is focused primarily on the poor citizens. And our grandmothers will surely remember their youth and independently adjust the queue. Something, and they know how to do it masterfully.

curious

Moscow payphones are almost 110 years old: in 1903, the first eight payphones were installed throughout Moscow, the payment for the conversation was made in silver coins of 10 and 15 kopecks. By the mid-20s, the cost of a conversation had dropped to 5 kopecks. In 1940, a call cost 15 kopecks. In 1961, a monetary reform was carried out in the country and the cost of a call was set at 2 kopecks. The peak of the popularity of payphones came in the 1980s: their number in the city exceeded 32 thousand. In the early 90s, due to galloping inflation, they abandoned coins, replacing them with tokens. In the early 2000s, they switched to cards.

Specifically

In total, today, according to the information of the operator of the project, the XXI Century - TV company, 109 booths of the People's Telephone are operating in Moscow and the region. Another 56 (48 in Moscow and 8 in cities near Moscow) have been installed, but are not yet operational. Mainly due to technical delays in obtaining the necessary documentation from local authorities and (or) due to untimely connection to the electricity supply by energy companies. In total - 165.

In Moscow, the highest concentration of cabins is in the SAO. In the Moscow region, the most "people's telephone" cities are Odintsovo (17 booths, of which 11 are working) and Korolev (14 and 13 booths, respectively).

Six more have been installed in Vidnoye and one in Naro-Fominsk.

As the project progresses, the distribution of cabins on the map of the region will become more even.

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