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Photos: BT red phone boxes get heart-starting makeover

...Kiosk scheme, which kicked off back in 2008. Pictured above is BT Payphones' Mark Johnson with Lower Slaughter Parish Council chair David Barnes and Richard... Read more

11 July, 2011 by Natasha Lomas

BT puts classic 'Jubilee' phone boxes up for sale

...as a gift for the person you know who has everything," BT Payphones chief Katherine Ainley said in a statement. This is the first time... Read more

26 April, 2012

Nokia trials free wi-fi hotspots across London

...free wi-fi hotspots in London" height="338px" width="250px" /> Wi-fi payphones: Nokia is trialling 26 free wi-fi hotspots in LondonPhoto: Spectrum Interactive... Read more

1 November, 2011 by Natasha Lomas

The Weekly Round-Up: iPad extras, Google+ for guinea pigs and red phone box revival

Top tablet accessories, pets on the social net and BT's heart-starting phone box... Read more

15 July, 2011 by The Round-Up

BT to turn payphones into hot spots

...to install BT Openzone access points in at least 200 of its payphones by this Christmas. All 200 of these sites are BT Internet kiosks... Read more

15 September, 2003 by Graeme Wearden

BT to announce Marconi smart payphone deal

...up with Marconi to roll out tens of thousands of high-tech payphones across the UK. Sunday's Sunday Telegraph predicted that some 30,000... Read more

10 December, 2001 by Graeme Wearden

BT payphones get Net treatment

...saying: "Not long ago, people were saying the only new wave for payphones would be to wave them goodbye. They were wrong." The new payphones... Read more

15 July, 1999 by Will Knight

Mobile boom forces BT to stop building call boxes

...new public telephone boxes around the UK, the company announced Sunday. BT Payphones, a subsidiary of BT, lost 37 percent of revenue in the last... Read more

29 January, 2001 by Graeme Wearden

BT turns phone boxes into base stations

...said a spokesman. It will help safeguard BT's 130,000 public payphones though. "It is somewhat ironic as payphones have been hit in revenue... Read more

12 April, 2001 by Jane Wakefield

Brits love bundles - and payphones

...as Turks indicate that somebody in their household makes use of public payphones. Conversely, practically no one in Finnish, Swedish, Slovenian, Cypriot and Danish households... Read more

30 April, 2007 by Jo Best

Is BT set to axe 30,000 payphones

...the toilet? BT has denied rumours it is to close 30,000 payphones across the UK as people continue to shun the booths in favour... Read more

30 June, 2004 by Will Sturgeon

Mobiles ring changes for payphones

...of the 155,000 phone boxes, to start reducing the number of payphones that appear in dense numbers, such as in shopping centres or train... Read more

16 November, 2001 by Aled Herbert

BT to demolish hundreds of payphones

...help out... BT is going to tear down hundreds of its unprofitable payphones. The latest move by new chairman Sir Christopher Bland - who seems to... Read more

13 August, 2001 by Graham Hayday
UK Payphone 1.0.1

UK Payphone 1.0.1

This application allows you to search for public payphones in the United Kingdom. You can search by entering a full payphone... Read more

9 October, 2008

iPass finally lands BT Wi-Fi deal

...including Hilton and Ramada Jarvis hotels, McDonalds eateries, mainline railway stations and payphones -- on top of roaming deals with The Cloud and T-Mobile. ZDNet... Read more

13 December, 2004 by Graeme Wearden

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