This picture shows one of the signs which were to be seen outside banks, post offices and train stations. It showed users where they could make calls. Also shown is a later model handset. Similar devices were used by the other companies: Rabbit, Mercury Callpoint & 'Zonephone'.

The technology was good but the idea wasn't. A better system had actually already been invented 100 years earlier - it was called a telephone box. Alongside such established competition, and pressure from the new cellular telephones, the 'telepoint' companies soon.