| Name | TATUNG SHANGHAI |
| Date | 1990s |
| Manufacturer | Tatung, Taiwan |
The TATUNG SHANGHAI 1990
Interesting use of a sophisticated Taiwanese made payphone used in China in the 1990s. This model was used a fair bit around SE Asia in this period, and this coin telephone was used in Shanghai during the 1990s and the lead-up to the Expo (before locally mass produced card phones came to dominate).
Tatung was a Taiwanese industrial group whose telecommunications interests included Taiwan Telecommunication Industry Company, or TTIC. Tatung’s corporate reporting identifies public telephones among TTIC’s products. The company’s own supplier profile describes coin, magnetic-card, IC-card and combined-payment payphones marketed internationally under the TATUNG and TTIC brands. It also offered equipment manufactured to customers’ specifications.
These commercial arrangements provided channels through which Taiwanese-branded payphones could be sourced for Chinese installations: telecommunications purchasers could obtain equipment through manufacturers, export suppliers or contracted distributors. TTIC advertised worldwide exports and shipment from ports in either Taiwan or China.
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