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We’re an amateur phone collective in Philadelphia! Are you a hacker, artist, or engineer? We need your help!
PhilTel is looking to install new (to us) payphones within the city of Philadelphia. Any payphone installed will be completely free-to-use, allowing the user to place calls within North America. Additionally, we would like to provide various experiences and services through the phones; these could be as simple as voicemail, fun as a phone number that randomly calls other payphones, or as complex as an integration with phone collectors’ networks to allow phone-phreaking and exploration!
PhilTel was founded in June 2022 and was inspired by Futel.
We are currently working on installing our second phone. Our first payphone is installed at Iffy Books and went live on December 17th 2022!
Here to learn about phreaking from a PhilTel phone? Check out our Phreaking page!
Want to program your Protel phone? Check out this post.
Posts
Protel Programming - Now Available over SIP
Fixing a Protel Payphone Part 5: The PBX & Dial-in
Fixing a Protel Payphone Part 4: XNet Config
Fixing a Protel Payphone Part 3: Modem Repair
Fixing a Protel Payphone Part 2: Installing ExpressNet
Free Community Protel Programming Line is Live
Archiving Ernest Telecom D7 Payphone Firmware and Manual
JawnCon 0x0 - A Postmortem
Resurrecting A Nortel Millennium
Archiving Protel Payphone Software
Use A Protel Keypad with the 2110V Coinless Board
Reviving AMPS Phones (April Fools' Post Explained)
Adding A Gong Ringer to a Payphone
Wall Mounting A Payphone
Announcing PhilTel Cellular
How We Use Asterisk: An Overview
PhilTel Interview on OpenSource.com
Replacing a Payphone Top Lock
Configuring the GL-AR300M16 as an OpenVPN Client
Configuring an OpenVPN Server
Creating New Payphone Instruction Cards
Firmware Downgrade a Franklin T9 Hotspot
SIM Unlock a Franklin T9 Hotspot
Port Forward from the GL-AR300M16
[Deprecated] Configuring the GL-AR300M16 as a WireGuard Client
Configuring the GL-AR300M16 as a Routed Client
Flashing OpenWRT on the GL-AR300M16 Router
[Deprecated] Configuring a WireGuard Server
Installing a Coinless Payphone Board
Fixing a Protel Payphone Part 1: Getting Dial Tone
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