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The Weekly Round-Up: 06.06.08
Round-Up Payphone usage has halved in the past two years and calls are declining at 20 per cent year-on-year. Now, there's no denying we love our broadband in the UK. But love is a rose with many barbs and those barbs are irking... [06 Jun 2008]
More BT pay phones face the axe
News Local authority consent is not required to remove call boxes if there is another payphone within 400 metres, however. BT said payphone usage has halved in the last two years and calls are declining at 20... [03 Jun 2008]
BT to dabble with region payphone cuts
News BT has confirmed it is seeking to introduce variable pricing in an effort to revive the UK's moribund payphones. The telco is hoping to persuade regulator Ofcom to allow it to experiment with varying call rates depending on the location... [07 Mar 2007]
Quocirca's Straight Talking: The work/life balancing act
Comment Communication while out of the office, once requiring a stop at a payphone, is now fully mobile (where legal and safe to do so), and includes all forms of messages from SMS through email and instant messaging as well as... [19 Jan 2006]
BT rolls out cash-dispensing phone boxes
News This is just the latest attempt by BT to reverse the downward trend in its payphone business. On a more serious note, Hendron did say the criminal abuse of phone boxes is an issue BT takes very seriously and one which... [08 Mar 2004]
BT turns payphones into hotspots
News They are all sited in areas where there is a large concentration of people, and could be the prelude for a much wider rollout across the BT payphone network. Vandalism has been a problem with phone boxes in the past,... [15 Sep 2003]
Ovum View: BT in pole position for wireless LAN
Comment It is perhaps fitting that as BT scales back its payphone activities, due to the ubiquity of mobile phones, it will be enhancing its public access operations with a new generation of wireless technology. [19 Apr 2002]
BT to demolish hundreds of payphones
News The Independent on Sunday reports that mobile phone usage has led to a slump in BT's payphone profits, with revenues from many of them falling by an average of 37 per cent. BT is going to tear down hundreds of its... [13 Aug 2001]
BT takes free net access to the public
News As part of the company's drive to transform the payphone into a multimedia kiosk, BT claims its new scheme will allow the remaining 60 per cent of the British population who are not yet logged on to get connected. [17 Jan 2001]
UK phone codes change again
News ISDN equipment call barring systems alternative network routing payphone facilities fixes put into equipment for PhONEday changes in 1995 The UK has entered yet another period of telephone number upheaval, as new... [02 Jun 1999]
