Payphones - scrap them all?

[Seos]

So because you don't use them.. scrap them ?

Very selfish eh ?

I live in a small village where we still have a local payphone, and when someone enquired to Eircom if it was being removed, they were told that it was one of the biggest earning payphones in the county.. because there were quite a few foreign workers in the village who used it to ring home, as it was cheaper than a mobile..

So, maybe you should consider other people when you want a service scrapped.. because you can't remember the last time you used it

I was just going to point that out, they are used alot by foreigners in this country, especially people who don't want to/can't afford to pay line rental because they're cheap for long distance calls.

There's also the fact that it's not costing anyone in this thread anything to have them as they're run by private companies so it's ridiculous that they're suggesting they be scraped!

Yes, the only seem to be a meeting point for hooded youths and a target for vandals.

A car driver could say that about bus stops, or a homeless person about walls...

[Seos]

I read a recent survey showed that 75% of Irish people don't use payphones.

I do quite like this one:
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/219/5...5f704c.jpg?v=0

So 25% do... That's higher then I would have thought.

[seabhcan]

Why don't they attach a wifi router to them? 2500 extra hot spots around the country would be great - and it could be made to earn money too.

[jfk2008]

I used them over Christmas and New Year when my mobile wasn't working properly.

They're useful in case of emergency. You can't assume that everyone has a working mobile at all times.