PUBLIC SERVICE

Although close to 5,000 pay phones are found in Ethiopia, most of them are not working properly and are used for different functions. The phone booth, minus the phone, in the picture is in Hawassa town, where a street vendor selling books is seen using it as shelter from the sun. It would seem that ethio-telecom has forgotten that although there has been a significant increase in mobile phone users, the majority of the population still relies on landline phones and public phone booths.
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