EDITORIAL | There’s no going back to the old-school tickey box
Will we see a return of the so-called dumb or brick phone to our schools as a potential compromise — or will schools in future resort to an outright ban?
22 January 2025 - 04:30
In the not-too-distant past, having a long-distance conversation with a loved one involved searching for a public telephone booth, nicknamed tickey boxes, and feeding coins into the machine before it would allow the call to go through...
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