public phoneboxes are being removed

Rodolfo

http://www.the-telephone-box.co.uk/

Rodolfo

when the electricity goes off, and the wifi shuts off, and the internet shuts down, and your phone battery expires, the public payphone will still be working (if there are any left)

teddysmum

I always used to dread having to use a phone box, stinking of urine or worse, dirty, claustrophobic and with a heavy door ready to crush you, if you aren't strong enough to resist.

brewerdave

The last time I needed to use a phone box (car broken down and no mobile) it was in the middle of nowhere -I walked back to the box (~2 mile walk) only to find that the handset cord had been cut ! No use having them if they aren't maintained/used.

onomatopoeia99

Rodolfo wrote: »

when the electricity goes off, and the wifi shuts off, and the internet shuts down, and your phone battery expires, the public payphone will still be working (if there are any left)

If all that happens at once, making a phone call from a public phone box won't help with anything. For one thing if the electricity shuts off, the phones will stop working as there will be no electric to power the exchanges.

Ian011

BT telephone exchanges work on massive battery power. That's why corded landline phones still work in a power cut.

As soon as you introduce cordless telephones, fibre connections, or other providers such as Virgin Media into the mix, all that resiliance is lost.

Loanranger

They put a defibrillator in one I know of in Colston Bassett in Notts.

spadoosh

Im 30 years old, the only time ive used a phone box was to ring it from my mobile as people would walk past.

I dont have a landline either. If youre worried about the end of the world as we know it (ie everything electrical suddenly stopping working) you would be better having a radio.

It was annoying the one time we had a powercut and had to wait for internet to come back again (i believe they have to do this manually at each green box?!). I had to tether my phone to my laptop to watch the walking dead.

I prefer resilience of mind over systems.

ariba10

spadoosh wrote: »

I dont have a landline either. If youre worried about the end of the world as we know it (ie everything electrical suddenly stopping working) you would be better having a radio.

Would that be Steam powered or Coal fired?

boliston

ariba10 wrote: »

The daily delivery of letters will be next.

The closure of smaller Post Offices is underway!

I believe it's called progress.

that would be good as 99.9℅ of what gets shoved through my letterbox is junk mail