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BT raises pay phone charge to 40p
Making a call from a BT pay phone will cost a minimum of 40p from November, the telecoms giant has announced.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/5381084.stm |
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Well, privatise a public service and it no longer is a public service. Blame the government (any of them).
BT is now a public company responsible and accountable ONLY to its shareholders. They have absolutely no legal requirement to keep the public phones going. Maybe an ethical one but again the government removed that when WE stopped paying for it via our taxes. Bring back hanging, I say. |
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Another reason to get a mobile...
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To be fair to BT, they aren't actually raising prices, they are just saying your minimum call length is now 20 mins if you want to get best value for your money.
Before minimum charge - 30p = 15 mins. Now minimum charge - 40p = 20 mins. |
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yeah i agree. mobile phones are actually CHEAPER now than using phone boxes.
its a joke |
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I've noticed pay phones are becoming rarer and rarer. People use their mobiles now.
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I'd definately say, I hardly ever see anyone in a phone box nowadays, I think they must cost more to clean and run than they make.
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this is absolutely disgraceful, its a rip off
some people do still use the public payphones when needed. my mum is one, cos shes a technophobe & cant use a mobile phone (or any phone that involves anything more complicated than picking up the receiver to talk) |
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Does ANYONE honestly use those spangley ones with silly internet things inside them?...everyone walking past will see what you are doing!
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Originally Posted by Exulus
Does ANYONE honestly use those spangley ones with silly internet things inside them?...everyone walking past will see what you are doing!
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Good grief. 40 pence. I haven't used a phonebox in years. Can't help but wonder who has used it before me.
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Originally Posted by Alfster
They have absolutely no legal requirement to keep the public phones going.
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What a rip off. I can remember when I could phone home on tuppence as a kid in 1985.
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Mad Pixie
To be fair to BT, they aren't actually raising prices, they are just saying your minimum call length is now 20 mins if you want to get best value for your money.
Before minimum charge - 30p = 15 mins. Now minimum charge - 40p = 20 mins. |
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Quote:
Originally Posted by MadMulla
Making a call from a BT pay phone will cost a minimum of 40p from November, the telecoms giant has announced.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/5381084.stm |
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And about time too I hope there priced off the streets. Get rid of these ad-hoc urinals, there an eyesore
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Quote:
Originally Posted by MadMulla
Making a call from a BT pay phone will cost a minimum of 40p from November, the telecoms giant has announced.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/5381084.stm ![]() you will be telling me next they will have a space age push button phone and not a dial any more
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Phone boxes are useful though.....i've met lots of women who've accidentally left their phone numbers in there.
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What this will do for definite is reduce usage. Even lower figures will help BT justify the removal of more phones which at the end of the day can't be very lucrative in some areas. The rural ones would have gone already were there not requirements for them to be there in the first place.
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Originally Posted by Johnny Seven
And about time too I hope there priced off the streets. Get rid of these ad-hoc urinals, there an eyesore
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Originally Posted by BeatleGod
Phone boxes are useful though.....i've met lots of women who've accidentally left their phone numbers in there.
I hear those sorts of girls are very discreet.
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its like they dont get enough money from the advertising on them
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Mad Pixie
To be fair to BT, they aren't actually raising prices, they are just saying your minimum call length is now 20 mins if you want to get best value for your money.
Before minimum charge - 30p = 15 mins. Now minimum charge - 40p = 20 mins. |
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Originally Posted by PvG
On a card pinned to the side of the phone?
I hear those sorts of girls are very discreet.
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I do not have a mobile phone as I rarely make phone calls when I am away from home. In fact I don't make many calls when I'm at home either. Recently, I had to use a payphone in London to call a friend to confirm arrangements for a visit before making my way to his home. This must have been the first time in ten years - probably a lot longer - that I used a payphone. The call cost 30p but for that I got ample time without having to put any more money in. I can recall that the time allowed for the basic cost was nothing like 15 minutes back in the 1960s and 1970s when I last used payphones to any extent.
Now I'm rather surprised to find that people are suggesting that it would be cheaper to get a mobile phone. I find it hard to believe I could have owned one for ten years and have paid out less that 30p in all that time. But I shall investigate further - because that sounds like such a bargain that if it turns out to be true, even I might decicde to get one!
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