Club phone

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Clubtelefon is the brand name of several coin operated telephones from Deutsche Telekom AG or their predecessor Deutsche Bundespost Telekom , which are not accessible in open public spaces, but are located in buildings - primarily in restaurants, cafés, hotels, club houses, hospitals, schools and other facilities . They are similar to the telephones that can be found in telephone booths , but are only partially safe from vandalism.

history

The “ table-top coin-operated telephone 33 ” and “ subscriber coin-operated telephone 55b ” can be seen as forerunners . The first model, “ Clubphone 1 ”, came onto the market in June 1987 after several years of field testing and in most cases replaced the combination of a telephone with a charge display. Club phones 2 and 3 did not get beyond the test phase at the Bundespost. In 1990 the " Clubtelefon 4 " followed as a supplement , which could be used both as a desk phone and a wall phone. The two club telephones 1 and 4 could not be converted from D-Mark to Euro , so their use ended at the end of 2001 at the latest. The internal name of the two club telephones was TMünzFw88 for club telephone 1 and TMünzFw77 for club telephone 4, the abbreviation TMünzFw stands for Subscriber pay phone .

The " Clubtelefon 5 " appeared in 1995 as an analog version , from 2001 only the ISDN version was produced. It could be converted to euros. For this purpose, matching coin validators were built into the models and additional description stickers were enclosed. Also in 2001 the “ Clubtelefon 11 ” and “ 41 ” were released, which also had to be converted from DM to Euro. 11 and 41 differ only in details, armored hose with the 11 and with the 41 normal telephone cord and can also be used as a tabletop device. The sale of 11 and 41 by Deutsche Telekom was discontinued in 2008, so only the “Clubphone 5” is currently available.

Technical overview and prices

Setup and performance characteristics

The installation is not carried out by Telekom, but must be commissioned by the operator or owner of the location. The club telephone can either be rented or bought from Telekom. The operator is also responsible for maintenance; Other services such as maintenance are carried out by T-Service . Telekom treats the club telephone like a normal telephone and in turn charges the operator for the telephone costs incurred. In return, he receives the coin fee fees incurred for the club telephone, as he can determine the amount of the fees. The timing of the club telephones 1 and 4 could not be influenced; instead, the charge pulse or billing evidence was used as a switching service feature ; As with all other German coin operated telephones, this is done via a 16 kHz signal. Since the club phone 5, the time interval can also be selected between one and 360 seconds. As with all other coins, the inserted coins fall into a corresponding container after the start of a fee unit (colloquially known as a "Groschengrab"). Therefore there is no change for part of the fee units. Only inserted coins for fee units that have not yet started will be returned after the end of the call. All club telephones (with the exception of club telephone 1) emit the so-called cuckoo tone , which warns against putting through collect calls . The emergency numbers 110 and 112 can be dialed coin-free. On request, however, this could be blocked on club telephone 1, which meant that an emergency call was only possible after inserting a coin.

Exemplary pricing

Whereas in 1987 a normal unit cost 23 pfennigs , a club telephone required at least 30 pfennigs. In July 1990, the monthly rent for the club telephone was DM 42.41 for 'Equipment 1' and DM 62.42 for '  Equipment 2'. In comparison, the rental costs for a standard telephone with a rotary dial were DM 2.39. with keypad 3.02 DM; For a rental device with a keypad, ringer and redial , DM 3.31 had to be paid per month (excerpts from the first price list after the liberalization of the end device market).

In April 1992 the costs were:

  • Club telephone 1: purchase price 3,498 DM (equivalent to 2,738 euros today), rent 62.42 DM / month (minimum rental period: 5 years)
  • Club telephone 4: Purchase price DM 1,998 (equivalent to EUR 1,564 today), rent DM 42.41 / month (minimum rental period: 5 years).

The currently available Clubphone 5 costs at Telekom in October 2009:

  • Purchase price € 688.79 or rent € 41.38 / month (plus VAT ).

Description of the club phones

Club phone 1

Club phone 1

The club telephone 1 (also called TMünzFw88 ) was introduced in June 1987. The housing resembles the public payphone at that time, but the club phone manufactured by Landis & Gyr Communications Deutschland GmbH was smaller (height 545 mm × width 220 mm × depth 225 mm) and - instead of the gray hammer finish of the devices in telephone boxes - in the Colors brown-beige. Only three different coins could be inserted into the two existing coin slots (1 DM pieces and 10 with 50 pfennigs) in the club telephone, which weighed 17 kilograms. The club telephone 1 could not be converted to euro coins . The coin check was carried out mechanically and electronically; a four-digit liquid crystal display showed the credit. The additional payment request was made acoustically 10 seconds before the end of the credit balance and the display flashed. Re-election was possible after briefly hanging up the phone (less than 1.5 seconds). In addition to the pulse dialing method , the multi-frequency dialing method should optionally be available, but this was never used; the plug on the board for the DTMF expansion board was only installed in the first devices, later the space was left unequipped. The keypad was made of metal. Incoming calls were possible. An integrated test program with a display of the defective assembly indicated a possible fault to a service technician. The feed current on the connection line had to be at least 17 mA; if necessary, a power supply could be retrofitted, but this was never introduced by the post office. The magnetic field protection required due to the position of the optional power supply unit directly next to the main processor was later omitted. Club telephone 1 could be operated at a temperature between −30 ° C and +55 ° C.

Permitted transport options were local calls , local and self-dialing long- distance service calls (domestic, "SWFD"), announcement services , SWFD calls to other European countries with the prefix 003, 004 and to Turkey 0090 and telephone inquiries (domestic / international). Telegram recording , telephone order services, remote VSt hand (domestic), coastal radio , remote VSt (foreign) and SWFD calls (foreign) were blocked.

Club phones 2 and 3

The club telephones 2 and 3 were tested in field trials by the Deutsche Bundespost Telekom, but not implemented.

Club phone 4

Club telephone 4, here as a wall model in an indoor telephone booth, which is provided with carpets on the walls for sound insulation.

The Clubphone 4 (also called TMünzFw77 ) could be used as a desk or wall- mounted phone and was manufactured by Landis & Gyr Communications Deutschland GmbH between 1990 and 1995. The color of the plastic housing was brown-beige, as was the case with Clubphone 1. It had an electronic coin check for 10 and 50 pfennig pieces as well as for 1, 2 and 5 DM coins. The cash box located on the back of the housing was only inadequately protected. However, an external steel cassette attachment, similar to that of the club telephone 1, was available, but then only wall mounting was possible. The club telephone 4 could be operated in pulse dialing and multi-frequency dialing, but could not be converted to euros . Emergency numbers could be dialed coin-free.

Club phone 5

Club phone 5

The Clubphone 5 was first manufactured by FMN communications in July 1995 . The analog version was produced until 2001, after that only the ISDN version. The Club Telephone 5 could be converted from DM to Euro and is still up-to-date and available in another version as a public telephone. Between 2004 and the end of 2008, there was the "Club 5" incorporating Wi - Fi hotspot .

The color scheme of the "Club 5" was initially held in light gray-dark gray and was later changed to light gray with a magenta-colored "design bracket".

Pfennig and DM coins between 10 Pfennig and 5 DM could be processed. Since the changeover to euros, all coins between 5 cents and 2 euros have been accepted. Like its predecessors, the “Club 5” has an electronic coin check, the capacity of the coin container is approx. 400 10 pfennigs or cent coins. The wall-mounted device consists of a die-cast aluminum housing, the surface of which is protected with a plastic powder coating, and a metal keyboard. The receiver is made of plastic, the receiver cord is provided with a reinforced tube. The dimensions are 390 mm in height, 240 mm in width and 143 mm in depth. The weight is approximately 8 kg. In the standard version, energy is supplied via the telephone network. As the telephone line that are pulse dialing and tone dialing (DTMF) is available. The checkout is controlled by the 16 kHz counting pulse or by own tariffs.

The manufacturer FMN also offered this payphone in its own versions (without telecom design) as FMN S500 € URO (analogue) FMN S550 € URO (ISDN) and as FMN S700 € URO (money card phone) . The slot for the cash card is located on this telephone in place of the coin return compartment. Other versions with IP connections or based on GSM were tested on the basis of the FMN S5000, but not launched on the market. The devices from FMN could be maintained remotely (not the ISDN variants S550 and S5500), but those from Telekom were not.

Club telephone 5 Ötel

Club telephone 5 as a public telephone on the Frankfurt exhibition grounds

Due to the robust metal construction, the Clubphone 5 ISDN is also used as an Ötel version. This is a public telephone. The Club 5 Ötel can be recognized by the fact that a shaft under the telephone leads to another container into which the coins fall directly. This has the additional advantage that the phone is not necessarily destroyed if a coin is stolen, but only - if it succeeds at all - the coin safe. The same cassette attachment is used as for the payphone 23. The interface required to address the data memory is also available. The Clubphone 5 ÖTel has the same hardware as that of the Clubtelefon 5 W-LAN, but the "W-LAN backpack" is empty. This was necessary because the much deeper safe would otherwise have protruded far beyond the device. An additional power supply, as is usual with other public pay telephones from Deutsche Telekom, was not required, only the NTBA had to be fed. This device could also be maintained remotely, but not with the protocol that FMN otherwise used.

Club telephone 5 W-LAN

Club telephone 5 with W-LAN ; the transmission technology is behind the telephone under the magenta cover.

The Clubphone 5 W-LAN was offered between 2004 and the end of 2008 and, unlike the normal “Club 5”, had a magenta-colored “WLAN button” to the left of the zero button. Below the return compartment there was a small additional housing which, after activating and paying for the WLAN functions, issued a printout with the access data for the Telekom AG WLAN. An additional power supply was necessary for the printer and the WLAN transmitter or the hot spot. To use WLAN, the WLAN button had to be pressed and then coins had to be inserted according to the useful life. The manufacturer also offered this model as alpha call & surf, but it lacked the built-in remote maintenance option of the Clubphone 5 W-LAN.

The antennas required for the radio network were mounted behind the magenta-colored cover labeled “T-Com Here with WLAN wireless into the Internet” or “• T • • • • Club5 W-LAN”. The other WLAN technology was housed behind the actual pay phone in an additional module, the backpack.

The device had specially adapted software and a modified main board that enabled the additional components to be controlled. In principle, however, it could also be operated as a pure “Club Telephone 5 ISDN”.

Club phone 11

The club telephone 11 can be recognized by the armored hose cable. Mounted here in a telephone cover.

The club telephone 11 was offered between 2001 and the end of 2008 and could be converted from DM to euros. The 11 and 41 club telephones were manufactured by Siemens Elasa in Spain. It works in the analog telephone network in tone dialing and requires an additional power connection for operation; In the event of a power failure, the phone can be used to make emergency calls for approximately 20 hours. A coin counter monitors the level of the coin container and limits it to 400 coins; thereafter, as with the club telephone 5, only emergency calls are possible. This fact is indicated in the display.

The housing is mostly made of plastic, the two locks and the lid of the coin return compartment are made of metal. The wall unit has dimensions of 225 mm × 300 mm × 225 mm and a weight of 5 kilograms. It can be operated in dry interior rooms between 0 and 50 ° C in a "monitored area". When using an automatic switch, call transfers from the club telephone 11 are possible, but not in the reverse order. The handset cord is protected with an armored hose.

The amounts for the first tariff unit and the subsequent units are freely adjustable from 0.00 to 2.00 euros in 5 ct steps. With the DM device the range was between 0.00 and 2.00 DM and could be selected in steps of 0.10 DM. The default setting is 0.25 euros or 0.50 DM. A combination of DM and euro coins is not possible.

After briefly hanging up the handset or pressing the corresponding shortcut key, any remaining credit can be used for another call. By subsequently throwing in an amount that has been used, it is also possible to get back too much money that was previously thrown in. For example, if you call for 60 cents after inserting a 50 cent and 1 euro coin, you can return the 1 euro coin by paying 2 × 5 or 1 × 10 cents. The user guidance in the display can be switched between German, English, French and Spanish. For the operator's security, certain blocks of phone numbers - such as value-added services - are blocked, but can be activated by the operator at his own risk. The phone also has eight speed dial buttons that can be freely assigned by the operator.

A built-in statistics counter informs the club telephone operator about the number and total duration of the calls made, the total income, the number of coins collected or whether the speed dialing buttons programmed by him have been used.

Club phone 41

The club telephone 41 has a normal helical telephone cord. Mounted here as a wall unit.

The Club Telephone 41 was also offered between 2001 and the end of 2008 - parallel to the Club Telephone 11 - and is identical to it with a few differences. The helical telephone cord to the handset does not have an armored hose in the model 41 and the device can also be used as a tabletop device. There is also a difference in the number of phone numbers treated separately, 100 phone numbers for 41 and 10 for 11 according to the operating instructions.

Similar payphones

Audioline

With the liberalization of the German telephone market , telephone companies and telecommunication equipment manufacturers can also manufacture and sell payphones. For example, the “Euro Münztel safe”, “Münztel 1 G” and “Münztel 1 G Safe” from Audioline are known . The manufacturer Olympia offers the "Europay 640".

literature

Annex to Official Gazette Order T 221/1990
  • Official journal of the Federal Minister for Post and Telecommunications and the German Federal Post Office
    • No. 59 year 1990, June 29, 1990 ( ISSN  0937-2962 ), p. 1087: Annex to Official Gazette Order T 221/1990: Price list for the rental and maintenance of telecommunication terminals that were previously made available according to the conditions of use under public law (status: July 1, 1990)
  • Deutsche Telekom instruction sheets - Deutsche Telekom's specialist journal for training and further education :
    • Bernhard Melcher: “Clubtelefon 1 - a payphone for the private sector”, 46th year, 7/1993, pp. 314–325
    • NN: Das Clubtelefon 4, 48th year, 5/1995, pp. 264–279
    • Renk Wilckens: "The Club Telephone 5, a payphone for the private sector", 51st year, 5/1998, pp. 224–229
  • Letter from the Club Telephones Working Group, Center for Public Telecommunications: Introduction sheet for terminal equipment Club Telephone 5, FTZ K31-2 B 4260 of July 21, 1995
  • Operating instructions for club phones 1, 5, 11 and 41
  • Terminals on the analog telecommunications network; Schmidt, Karl Heinz [ed.]; Verlag v. Decker, Heidelberg; ISBN 3-7685-4889-9
  • Münzfernsprecher - A compilation of the German coin-operated telephones from 1881 to 2006; Bösterling, Dirk; Published by the

Collectors and interest group for historical telecommunications eV Bad Homburg vd Höhe; 450 pages

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Tischmünzer 33 ( Memento of the original of April 27, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at www.telefonzelle.de.tl Status: September 20, 2009  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.telefonzelle.de.tl
  2. ↑ Tischmünzer 55b ( Memento of the original from April 27, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at www.telefonzelle.de.tl Status: September 20, 2009  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.telefonzelle.de.tl
  3. ↑ Club telephone 5 operating instructions, p. 32
  4. ↑ Bernhard Melcher, 7/1993, p. 317
  5. ↑ Official Journal of the Federal Minister for Post and Telecommunications and the German Federal Post Office, No. 59, year 1990, June 29, 1990, price list for the rental and maintenance of telecommunications terminals that were previously made available according to the conditions of use under public law
  6. ↑ The telephone guide: Selecting, connecting and understanding telephones, cordless telephones, answering machines, fax machines and cellular telephones; with 12 tables . In: Fritz Jörn (Ed.): Funkschau; Telecom . Franzis, Munich 1992, ISBN 3-7723-4751-7 , p. 25 ( limited preview in Google Book Search [accessed January 26, 2017]).
  7. ↑ Club phone 1: TMünzFw88  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at www.telefonzelle.de.tl Status: September 20, 2009@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.telefonzelle.de.tl  
  8. ↑ Service manual: TMünzFw 88 - Clubtelefon 1, p. 3
  9. ↑ Clubtelefon 2 on wasser.de/telefon Status: October 2009
  10. ↑ Club telephone 3  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Image on www.telefonzelle.de.tl Status: September 20, 2009@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.telefonzelle.de.tl  
  11. ↑ Clubtelefon 3 on fernsprecher.com, as of October 2009
  12. ↑ a b Clubtelefon 4: The second generation on www.kahlhans.de Status: October 2009
  13. ↑ Clubphone 4: TMünzFw77 on www.telefonzelle.de.tl Status: September 20, 2009
  14. ↑ Renk Wilckens: “The Club Telephone 5, a pay phone for the private sector”, Volume 51, 5/1998, pp. 224–229
  15. ↑ Clubtelefon 5 on www.telefonzelle.de.tl Status: September 20, 2009
  16. ↑ FMN S500 Euro coin phone ( memento of the original from March 13, 2004 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on citde.net as of December 2009  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.citde.net
  17. ↑ FMN S550 Euro coin phone ISDN ( memento of the original from March 13, 2004 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on citde.net as of December 2009  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.citde.net
  18. ↑ FMN S700 Euro cash card phone ( memento of the original from March 13, 2004 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on www.citde.net Status: December 2009  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.citde.net
  19. ↑ Clubtelefon 5 Ötel ( Memento of the original from March 13, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at www.telefonzelle.de.tl Status: September 20, 2009  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.telefonzelle.de.tl
  20. ↑ Club Phone 5: The third generation of kahlhans.de as of October 2009
  21. ↑ Clubphone 5 WLAN ( Memento of the original from March 13, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at www.telefonzelle.de.tl Status: September 20, 2009  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.telefonzelle.de.tl
  22. ↑ Clubphone 11 (Euro) on www.telefonzelle.de.tl Status: September 20, 2009
  23. ↑ Club telephone 11 operating instructions, p. 20.
  24. ↑ Clubtelefon 41 on www.telefonzelle.de.tl Status: September 20, 2009
  25. ↑ Euro Münztel safe ( Memento of the original dated May 28, 2004 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on www.citde.net Status: December 2009  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.citde.net
  26. ↑ Münztel 1 G ( Memento of the original of March 13, 2004 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on citde.net as of December 2009  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.citde.net
  27. ↑ Münztel 1 G Safe ( Memento of the original from March 13, 2004 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on www.citde.net Status: December 2009  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.citde.net
  28. ↑ Olympia Europay 640 ( Memento of the original from March 17, 2004 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on citde.net as of December 2009  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.citde.net

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