Why are there few "public telephone booths" common in developed countries in China?

Nowadays, it is rare to see people using public telephones, and mobile phones have become the standard in everyone's life. In recent years, the popularity of mobile phones is getting higher and higher. With the advent of the Internet era, consumers are increasingly dependent on traffic to access the Internet. If it weren't for accidents and emergencies, people would hardly use public telephones, which is the fundamental reason why there are almost no public telephone booths in China. As of 20 18 and 10, China Mobile has reached 9 10/00000 in terms of the number of customers; China Unicom 3 1 10,000 households; China Telecom has 260 million households, totaling 65.438+0.48 billion households, covering almost everyone in China.

Another reason is that the cell phone signal coverage in our country is very extensive, whether you are mobile, China Unicom or telecommunications. Whether you are a first-tier developed city or a fourth-tier remote town, or even a place without a car, the country will set up a signal tower. Therefore, in China, you can use your mobile phone to make a phone call no matter where it has a signal, but you can't do that abroad.

Foreign communication operators are all individual enterprises. Since they are individual enterprises, some of their actions naturally have no political purpose. How to make money? Therefore, these communication operators will only lay mobile phone signal networks in some large and medium-sized cities. Those remote areas with sparsely populated or very poor people will not cover mobile phone signals here because they can't make money. China's communication operators are state-owned enterprises, whose main purpose is to serve the public, not to make profits.

It is for these reasons that many foreign residents can't use their mobile phones even if they have signal problems, so many foreigners still choose public telephones to make calls. In fact, this is also a very helpless thing. If the cell phone has a signal, who wants to go to all the trouble to make a phone call?