They still exist, the cell phone.

She is not dead easy to get: Cheap cell phones and prepaid tariffs are in spite of many German cities, public phones, some still in the old yellow Post of the seventies, some in the magenta-modern look, but more and more completely misused.

 

The house phone is at present Stuttgarter Platz in Berlin. It is tarot and stomach of steel, has four walls and a door. Stale air is pressing against one when the door opens. It smells of urine, from pistachio shells and cigarette butts are on the ground. One who has given up, here numbers to choose, his calling card on the machine are allowed. That is: "the bank is still on it."

The cell phone is a relic of the communication history, in times of mobile phones and Internet cafes will be less and less respected. Nevertheless, throughout Germany, according to the telecom equipment 100,000 still in operation, 17,000 of them in eastern Germany. The number has doubled in the last few years hardly changed, says Telekom spokesman Juergen Will.

Even where public phones are unprofitable, with only about 7500 euro more expensive houses to simple phones to a column of around 500 euros exchanged. To create a nationwide supply of public telephony to ensure only a few machines would disappear completely, says Will. In large cities such as Leipzig, Dresden and Berlin, there is still an impressive number. Why are still good?

Price of the interview: 20 Cent, the new penny

The phone houses past is at the Leonhardt mountain road in Charlotte. The cell from the year 1978, post-yellow, has a phone for coins and a door that is so difficult is that they must aufstemmen. Marc Ihlow is in the phone booth, which is older than him. The 23-year-old speaks rapidly in the handset: "Are you there. Yes? I come over?"

Then he lays down on. Not 20 seconds has his interview time, a 20-cent-penny it has cost him. "I have a phone with pre-paid card and how it is often no money on it," says the cell phone lot. "Then I stop to go home."

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300 million phone calls were made in 2007 led to public apparatus. This is the most recent count, the cell operator Telecom has published. The year before she had even announced that some 35,000 of 100,000 viable cells were in Germany. Its turnover stood at less than 125 euros a month. Especially in rural areas, the number of cells is low. During 2009 alone in Berlin 4800 cells are - sometimes two or more at one site - it is in Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt, Thuringia, Brandenburg and Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania together 12,800. In the 1900-people village in the village of Jacob District Oder-Spree, there are about only one machine and without the house and roof. In Magdeburg, a cell phone even on the mini-public library converted.

Cells as junkies use Fix-space

Anders in Berlin. Only a few meters away from the Stuttgart court, between the Wilmersdorfer and Lewisham Road are four cells gregarious side by side. Two red, two yellow, two coins, two for tickets. Gamze Özcan also operates a juice bar.

In radio dudelt reggae music, the walls are painted in a cheerful orange deleted. The yellow of the fresh cells at the door for loading and adjusts the red-green fruit cocktails. "It is a misery that we see," says owner juice Gamze Özcan. It turns the cheerful music. "Uses the cells only by junkies for spraying or for men who do not find toilet. And all that just in front of my shop."