Has anyone noticed those orange public street payphones known as Interphone?

The previous owners went into liquidation last year and there are many of these payphone kiosks left disused and in a bad state of disrepair.

1000 kiosks were sold to NWP Spectrum and they replaced 750 interphone kiosks with shiny new ones, the remaining 350 were removed completely because they weren't in profitable locations. 372 interphone kiosks went into liquidation together with Interphone public Networks and 187 interphone kiosks were retained by Infolines/Central payphones.

This information was supplied by ofcom. The 187 kiosks would possibly be around were the company was based in the midlands, however Infolines/Central payphones was purchased by 4 kiosk solutions and did not purchase the street kiosks. So who owns them now?

Some of these kiosks are health hazzard and councils found out that drug users were using the kiosks as a drug hangout!

Any near where you live?

You mean like this one outside Barbican tube station?
I’ve only seen them in big cities or airports.

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I don’t think you’d get many drug users in one of those, but it certainly
makes the street look untidy. You’d think one of the myriad of telecoms
companies would have snapped them up.

They were located all over london and Middlesex and some in Surrey like Oxted.

Drug users were using the telephone boxes not the hooded kiosks. There were a lot round Camden, but as I said Spectrum interactive snapped up 1,000 of these kiosks and replaced 750 kiosks with nice new ones.

The kiosks are in this state due to the High business rates(council tax) and increase in pay as you go mobiles.

The company who owned the interphone kiosks in 2000 sold the Belfast kiosks to Euro-Payphone Limited and they have rebranded them and are in a good state.

Meanwhile, here are the current call charges made via Spectrum Interactive's payphones:

Local calls: 11p per minute
National calls&0870: 20p per minute
Mobiles: 60p per minute
Premium rate: £1.50 per minute
Europe: 80p per minute
America: 80p per minute
Caribean: 80p per minute
Other Int'l countries: £1.60 per minute.

Minimum call charge for coin calls is 30p (Raised from 20p to 30p on 1st November) and £1.00 for credit card calls.

Call Charges for Premier payphones:

Local and national calls: 20p per 110 seconds
UK Mobiles: 60p per minute
Interational: £2 per minute

Minimum call charge for coin calls is 20p. Minimum call charge for credit card calls is 80p, payphones which do not have a credit cardswipe can still be used by dialling Credit Call: 0800-138-0201.

Premier operate payphones in hospitals,shopping centres including Brent Cross and other public areas.

Spectrum operate 9,000 payphones throughout UK angd Germany.

Take a look at this site: Redphone Box

Spectrum Interactive:
www.spectruminteractive.co.uk

Does anyone know about the kiosks in other cities?

The last owners of the Interphone kiosks could have enabled mobile networks to install microcells inside the kiosks and pay rent towards Interphone and then they would of been able to maintain the kiosks!

The Interphone kiosks in Manchester and the midlands are owned and run by 4 Kiosk Solutions Limited which took over Infolines Public Networks.