public phoneboxes are being removed

Rodolfo

they are removing phoneboxes everywhere. there will be a note in the box. make complaint

Guest101

They're mostly redundant and too costly, both in maintenance and to the consumer




Are you suggesting we keep them for nostalgia sake?

ariba10

The daily delivery of letters will be next.

The closure of smaller Post Offices is underway!

I believe it's called progress.

Gloomendoom

Guest101 wrote: »

Are you suggesting we keep them for nostalgia sake?

In areas where there is no mobile phone signal, they should be kept for safety's sake.

poppasmurf_bewdley

So some people are suggesting these services are kept on despite them not being used?

I watched an item on TV last week about a telephone box being removed that hadn't had a single user in 12 months. But people were still complaining about it going.

The last time I used a public call box, it stank of urine, the handset was caked in grunge, and had cigarette ash and ends everywhere.

And it cost a fortune to make a call.

giraffe69

I can't remember the last time I used a public call box or saw one being used assuming it wasn't out of commission There are some in the rural area I live. Whilst I can see the need for a small number I would also remove the ones that have very low useage. Most people have an alternative these days. I have no signal where I live but I do have a box which gives me a signal via my network which would work if my land line didn't.

I don't think they should be kept on if they are clearly uneconomic.

Ian011

poppasmurf_bewdley wrote: »

And it cost a fortune to make a call.

60p gets you 30 minutes to an 01, 02 or 03 number.
£1 gets you an hour.

Browntoa

to be replaced with


http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/news/bt-phone-box-link-wi-fi-charging-point-where-to-find-london-uk-tablet-a7379711.html


The phonebox is dead. Long live the phonebox.
BT has announced that it will be replacing its famous and much-revered red boxes with new kiosks. Those kiosks won’t allow people to hide in them, but will otherwise offer the modern version of phonebox technology – super fast Wi-Fi, free calls and chargers for phones, instead of traditional handsets.
The new kiosks will start opening up on major high streets in London from next year. They’ll eventually roll out to the rest of the country – though there’ll be fewer of them than there are traditional phone boxes


The new Links will be paid for with money from advertising that will go on the Links.

baby_lemonade

End of an era..

It's a shame but certainly the ones in towns are used mainly, if not solely, by drug-dealers and other dodgy types. As someone has pointed out, it probably costs more to maintain them than the profits they make from them.

Cloudydaze

I think turning the iconic red boxes into libraries is a great idea.

http://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/lewisham-phone-box-turned-in-to-londons-smallest-library-9218293.html

Rodolfo

https://www.ofcom.org.uk/__data/assets/pdf_file/0035/47879/removing_callboxes.pdf