Man discovers little-known reason behind the Telstra payphone ‘Follow On’ button
If you’ve stopped by a Telstra payphone recently to utilise the free national calls and texts, you may have wondered what the “Follow On” button beneath the receiver does. Now that the pay phone s don’t require coins, the feature is largely redundant, but the little-known trick tickled various generations online, who shared from their own repertoire of outdated pay phone hacks. An Australian man posed the phone booth question on Monday, asking Reddit: “What does the ‘Follow On’ button do on Telstra phone boxes?” Watch the latest News on Channel 7 or stream for free on 7plus >> “It allowed you to make further calls with any remaining call credit,” one user explained. “I loved that you had to press it before the other person hung up, or it would disconnect, and you’d be stuck with no money to make the other calls you really needed to make,” another said. “Was that the trick was it? Glad I found out 20 years after I needed that,” another said. The feature is still useful when maki...