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Coins to no longer operate rural UK public phones
Moving more toward the cashless society I guess.
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Coins to no longer operate rural UK public phones
"stonej" wrote in message oups.com... Moving more toward the cashless society I guess. http://www.marketrasentoday.co.uk/Vi...icleID=1510156 It rare now to see a phone box being used as 99% of everyone has a mobile phone. Billy |
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Coins to no longer operate rural UK public phones
"e" wrote in message . .. In article , "note.boy" wrote: "stonej" wrote in message groups.com... Moving more toward the cashless society I guess. http://www.marketrasentoday.co.uk/Vi...3&ArticleID=15 10156 It rare now to see a phone box being used as 99% of everyone has a mobile phone. Billy they're great public loo's for the drunkers. I still saw plenty of the old red phone boxes in London a couple weeks ago. Not quite as many hooker-escort service ads plastered on the inside as I remembered from thirty years earlier. Never saw the phone actually being used. The only people using the boxes were tourists posing for photos. Bruce |
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Coins to no longer operate rural UK public phones
In article O_7bg.13035$8q.9019@dukeread08 "Bruce Remick" writes:
.... I still saw plenty of the old red phone boxes in London a couple weeks ago. Not quite as many hooker-escort service ads plastered on the inside as I remembered from thirty years earlier. Never saw the phone actually being used. The only people using the boxes were tourists posing for photos. I did use them, but the last years not with cash but with phone cards. it's operation is fairly simple, you enter a freephone number, followed by the number of your card, and after that you can call the number you wish. I think that quite a few of the red phone boxes you saw could not operate with coins either. -- dik t. winter, cwi, kruislaan 413, 1098 sj amsterdam, nederland, +31205924131 home: bovenover 215, 1025 jn amsterdam, nederland; http://www.cwi.nl/~dik/ |
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Coins to no longer operate rural UK public phones
On Thu, 18 May 2006 20:07:09 -0400, "Bruce Remick"
wrote: "e" wrote in message ... In article , "note.boy" wrote: "stonej" wrote in message egroups.com... Moving more toward the cashless society I guess. http://www.marketrasentoday.co.uk/Vi...3&ArticleID=15 10156 It rare now to see a phone box being used as 99% of everyone has a mobile phone. Billy they're great public loo's for the drunkers. I still saw plenty of the old red phone boxes in London a couple weeks ago. Not quite as many hooker-escort service ads plastered on the inside as I remembered from thirty years earlier. Never saw the phone actually being used. The only people using the boxes were tourists posing for photos. Bruce I was at RAF Chicksands outside of Befordshire from 1973 to 1976. I always had a pocketfull of 2p coins so I could use the phone box to call my wife to check in during the day. The phone had a 10p slot but I never talked more than 2 2p worth of time. Seems all the public loos in London took 1p coins or 5p, hard to remember. The loos in Hitchin were always free. I never went to London without a pocketful of change. Cliff |
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Coins to no longer operate rural UK public phones
On Thu, 18 May 2006 20:00:43 GMT, "note.boy"
wrote: "stonej" wrote in message roups.com... Moving more toward the cashless society I guess. http://www.marketrasentoday.co.uk/Vi...icleID=1510156 It rare now to see a phone box being used as 99% of everyone has a mobile phone. Billy Obviously you don't live in Amish country. beekeep |
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Coins to no longer operate rural UK public phones
On Fri, 19 May 2006 09:38:31 -0400, Reclining Buddha wrote:
On Fri, 19 May 2006 11:36:03 GMT, (beekeep) wrote: On Thu, 18 May 2006 20:00:43 GMT, "note.boy" wrote: "stonej" wrote in message egroups.com... Moving more toward the cashless society I guess. http://www.marketrasentoday.co.uk/Vi...icleID=1510156 It rare now to see a phone box being used as 99% of everyone has a mobile phone. Billy Obviously you don't live in Amish country. beekeep Who would the Amish call if they DID have cell phones? Who would they call even if they used a phone box? take care, Scott "I've churned butter once or twice Living in an Amish paradise" |
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Coins to no longer operate rural UK public phones
In a recent message "Bruce Remick" wrote:
"e" wrote in message . .. In article , "note.boy" wrote: "stonej" wrote in message groups.com... Moving more toward the cashless society I guess. http://www.marketrasentoday.co.uk/Vi...3&ArticleID=15 10156 It rare now to see a phone box being used as 99% of everyone has a mobile phone. Billy Our village phone box and phone was saved by being listed! However, a coin-less system was installed there also ages ago. -- Tony Clayton Coins of the UK : http://www.coinsoftheuk.info Sent using RISCOS on an Acorn Strong Arm RiscPC .... This tagline is freeware, no payment should be made for it's distribution. |
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Coins to no longer operate rural UK public phones
On Thu, 18 May 2006 20:00:43 GMT, "note.boy"
wrote: It rare now to see a phone box being used as 99% of everyone has a mobile phone. Billy I'm a proud holdout, part of your 1%. Even my home phone is wired to the wall. Have been concerned that wireless=transceiver=not private. But, heck, the NSA kinda blew my naive impression of security away, haha. Seriously though, I don't know why I bother paying for phone service at all ... except the telemarketers need someone to talk with. I see people walking around and driving around constantly chatting on their cell phones ... and I feel I am surrounded by madness. Don't get me wrong, there are people I love to talk with ... just not on the phone. #1 Cell phone peeve: People at the checkout, talking on the phone with a line behind them. Don't even try to tell me the checkout is as fast as if they weren't distracted by their all so important chit chat. That's just rude. |
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