> It could not dial outside of the city as far as I understood it. Because there were no support for collect calls and Soviet payphones weren't set up to accep

> It could not dial outside of the city as far as I understood it. Because there were no support for collect calls and Soviet payphones weren't set up to accept charges for non-local calls. You just couldn't "feed" them coins. PS. You could though call for free if you drill a small hole in a coin, tied a length of string to it and then yank it back from the phone in the right moment. Phreaking, the Soviet way :)