Phone booths in most of Hanoi’s streets are broken and, many of them are completely seriously destroyed.

Broken glass, filthy key pads, phone booths serve as a place to put advertisements.

Some have even become public rest rooms. And even the ones that do work are in bad shape.

Nguyen Tuyet Nhung, a person who lives near a phone booth in Phan Huy Chu Street, said, “I’ve never seen anybody use it, except for men urinating on it.”

Speaking with DTiNews reporter, Tran Thi Yen from Hanoi Telecom, said Hanoi has more than 1,000 card phone cabins and many of them are now out of order. However, repairing them could be difficult because most of the parts must be imported.

A number of people use the booths as their own purposes, she said, adding that the company will join hands with concerned agencies to deal with the situation.

Hanoi’s street phone situation:

A phone on Tran Huy Lieu Street, Hanoi

Useless booths

Severely vandalised

Once functional keypad

Public rest room

Some equipment has been stolen

Out of order

Even a phone booth Opposite Hanoi Post Office doesn\'t work