I was a student in Kuala Lumpur and would use the public phone to contact my family in Perak. Besides, the network coverage was very bad then, so it was better to just use public phones,” she said. “When I was a teenager, I would call my cousin from a public phone that was just a few metres from my house. “If I remember correctly, the last time I used a public phone was probably in the late 1990s,” Lew said. For now, he said, the local authorities could perhaps spruce up the derelict phone booths and make them Instagram worthy.
