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posted 10 November 2021 07:10 PM
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The U.K.'s phone regulator says it will keep thousands of the nation's famous red public phone kiosks in service, despite a sharp drop in calls from the boxes.

Communications regulator Ofcom says the payphones are still vital in case of emergencies, and in areas where cellphone users can't get a reliable signal.

Under the regulator's new criteria, a call box will need to be used at least 52 times over a 12-month period for it to stay in service. And if a kiosk is in an area identified as an accident or suicide hotspot, it can't be removed.



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Even if a red phone kiosk is slated for decommission, it can be adopted by its local community under a plan that lets governments or organizations buy the call box for just £1. According to Ofcom, "more than 6,000 kiosks have been converted to a range of different uses, such as community libraries, or to house life-saving public defibrillators."




https://www.npr.org/2021/11/10...its-red-phone-kiosks


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posted 10 November 2021 07:42 PMHide Post
Are there any public phones left in the US?

Well, I imagine there are some (like at airports or train stations?) but I can't remember the last time I saw one....

Oddly enough, a payphone was one of the very first things I took a photo of when I went to Japan for the first time, in 1996. They looked so foreign to me then!


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posted 10 November 2021 09:08 PMHide Post
Well, we haven’t gotten rid of our red pennies, either, despite their being pretty useless.


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