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Brazilian Payphone- Daruma TPL-105

These Daruma TPL-105 card payphones carry Daruma, Urmet and Telebrás branding, with displays, metal keypads and armoured handset cords. Interestingly, the taller version retains a blank panel where the coin box would sit. Its lower cabinet assembly visually resembles those of Tongya models, although no manufacturing connection has been established.

Name	Daruma TPL-105
Date	c. 2000
Manufacturer	Daruma Payphones Stylistically, the model shows similarities to the Taiwan Tongya TK-123 Optical Card Public Telephone, which in turn was similar to the Landis & Gyr CP1- Phonecard 1.
Credit	With thanks to- https://acervo.institutofuturos.org.br/ Images copyright Musehum, Museum of Communications and Humanities (Brazilian Telecommunications Museum)

Above- card phone version interestingly with a coin box blank showing. Coin box assembly very similar to Tongya models.

Development of the Daruma TPL-105

The Daruma TPL-105 was a Brazilian public-telephone family, encompassing token-operated and card-operated versions. Musehum holds a token-operated TPL-105 dated March 1984 and an inductive-card TPL-105TF dated June 1997; these are dates of individual examples, rather than confirmed launch dates. acervo.institutofuturos.org.br

Your photographs show two card versions:

Version	Visible features
TPL-105C	Taller cabinet, with the operating instructions on a separate lower access door.
TPL-105TF	Shorter cabinet, with instructions beside the keypad and labelled buttons for police, fire, ambulance and volume.

Both carry Daruma and Urmet branding, alongside Telebrás identification. They have a display, metal keypad, card slot and an armoured handset cord.

The museum confirms that the TPL-105TF used prepaid inductive telephone cards. This distinguishes it from the earlier token model and from magnetic-stripe or chip-card phones. acervo.institutofuturos.org.br