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Phone booths in England losing their popularity
Britain's storied telephone booths -- the classic red version and its drab glass cousin -- are fighting for their lives in what looks like a losing battle with the cell phone, according to the Tri-Valley Herald Online. "Four out of five Britons now carry mobile phones and pay phones don't make as much money as they once did. The company responsible for them plans to remove 10,000 by the end of next year". That includes some of the country's 15,000 red booths, which first appeared nearly 80 years ago and became a British icon. The demise of the phone box has been lamented in the British press, but British Telecommunications says it has no choice: Pay phone revenue has dropped 40 percent and the number of calls from public phones has halved in the last three years. Britain ranks among the world leaders for cell phone use, with 84 cell phone subscribers per 100 inhabitants, according to International Telecommunication Union data from 2002. The leader is Taiwan, where so many people have more than one plan that there are 106 subscribers per 100 inhabitants. In the United States there are 47.3 subscribers per 100 people". |
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