Australia's Telstra is to remove up to 5000 pay phones this year, saying many of the phones would be removed from sites where there was at least one other phone. According to the national telco, the business loses about $30 million a year.Telstra spokesman Warwick Ponder said, "The majority of the pay phones earmarked for removal are on sites where there are multiple pay phones and we simply remove one or two of those but leave one or two remaining pay phones."
According to a Fairfax newspaper report many of the phones are used to make reverse charge calls by schoolchildren and university students, calls which are not included in the telco's calculation of revenue earned by each phone.Aaw - that's cute.
Sorry about the poor photograph, I cut it from the corner of a photo I took the other day!
