Futel: the future of the past of telephony
summary
Portland project puts real pay phones back on the street as Portland's smallest phone company offering free domestic calls, voicemail, an on-call operator, one‑touch dialing to city officials and playful apps like Tetris and a radiation meter. Infrastructure is explicit: Asterisk + SIP ATAs + DD‑WRT routers + OpenVPN running on cheap DigitalOcean VMs, pennies per outgoing minute. One secure installation exists today (not a guerrilla drop), hardware costs ~$100–200 per kiosk, and calls are not recorded.
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chapters (21)
- 0:00Intro
- 2:48The Freakers
- 6:52Freakers
- 7:20Fair Jumper
- 8:34Plankax
- 9:29Stealing
- 10:11Political motivation
- 11:08Hacker culture
- 16:20What is VoIP
- 21:17Chunk 666
- 21:35SPS 700
- 22:21Church of Robotron
- 22:33The future of telephony
- 23:33The future of communications
- 25:06Interactive street hardware
- 26:59Street hardware
- 27:15Being nice
- 29:25Having a project
- 30:06Contribute
- 30:46Questions
- 33:02Futel Installation
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