A
telephone booth,
telephone kiosk,
telephone call box,
telephone box or
public call box is a small structure furnished with a
payphone and designed for a
telephone user's convenience. In the
United States and in some parts of
Canada, "telephone booth" (or "phone booth") is the commonly used term for the structure, while in the
Commonwealth of Nations (particularly the
United Kingdom and
Australia, and most of
Canada) it is a "telephone box" (or "phone box").