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You need a phonecard (télécarte) to make a call from a payphone (cabine téléphonique). Phonecards, in 50 or 120 units, can be purchased at a tabac shop or post office (la poste), and some other places which display a sign ‘télécarte en vente ici’. The top left button on the payphone (usually two flags and an arrow) allows you to choose between five languages in the LCD display: French (Décrochez), English (Please lift receiver), German (Bitte abheben), Spanish (Descuelgue) and Italian (Sganciare). Lift the receiver and wait for a dialling tone, then insert the phonecard with the chip and arrow topside and front of the card, and dial the required number when instructed. The units on the card will count down in the LCD once you are connected. Replace the receiver at the end of your call and remove the phonecard. Some payphones may also allow you to use a credit card. To phone the UK, call 00 44 (the IDD and country code), then the area code without the first zero, and then the local number. For the US and Canada call 001 + area code + number; for Australia call 0061 + area code minus zero + number.