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This thread is like a broken pencil: pointless.
Is it cold in here?:
Which is a pity, because they were going to be the first things back up after a natural disaster.
Cornelius:
Same here. The moment the phone companies were no longer obliged to maintain them, they all went out. After all everyone has a cell phone, no? Which is all fine and dandy until the moment you find yourself stranded on a station in the middle of nowhere, with no battery left, in the rain.
Morituri:
The phone companies around here aren't permitted to remove them, but they are not obliged to replace them when they fail.
And they've been not replacing them when they fail for about ... twenty? .... I think it's about twenty years now.
I doubt that there are more than a dozen still operating in this city, and don't know where they'd be.
TheEvilDog:
I know there's been some discussion here about getting rid of the last phoneboxes, but there's debate about whether or not some should be kept for emergencies or for more remote areas that don't have easy access to mobile or broadband service. But that's been going on for years.
hedgie:
I suppose that potential emergencies is a good reason to get a Ham license and carry a portable radio. Less likely to run out of battery if one barely uses it under normal circumstances.
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