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To: Frank A. Coluccio who wrote (10286)	2/1/2001 4:02:39 AM
From: elmatador	Respond to of 12823

"For the first time in over 100 years, BT will not expand its network of public payphones." This is how the end of fixed line started, Frank. In Japan the operator is even pulling them out. Perhaps they will use the copper pairs, now idle, for ZO's ADSL:-) BT may stop making phone boxes BT is reportedly to cease production of telephone boxes because the mobile phone revolution has left them bereft of callers. For the first time in over 100 years, BT will not expand its network of public payphones. Revenue for the company's 140,000 has slumped by 37% over the past two years, according to one report. "We are not increasing the number," a BT spokesman was quoted as saying. "Instead we will maintain the existing network. "There has been a reduction in recent years in both the revenue and the number of calls made and most of this is down to mobiles and, in particular, the growth of prepaid mobiles." The first public payphone was introduced in 1884, eight years after the invention of the telephone. BT recently increased the minimum cost of a payphone call to 20p, while mobile phone rates can be as low as 2p for Cellnet's weekend rate. The reported decision comes weeks after BT launched an advertising campaign urging people to return to call boxes rather than use mobile phones.