This is the last thing on their minds, when old red phone boxes, or similar glass structures are earmarked for removal.
I know of two such boxes, one just outside Croesor, and the other on the roadside at Vaynol above Merthyr.
These old technology phones, get virtually no customers, and still cost BT significant time and money to maintain.
The one near Croesor, was there for years, was never vandalised, but has now been removed, because of its very remote location, and obvious cost of maintaining.
Just about every person now own a mobile phone, and if no signal is available, they presume the user will move around until they get one.
Heaven forbid, if someone gets stuck in Mid Wales, especially in the Caersws, llanbrynmair area, a mobile signal is almost unobtainable, and roadside telephones are things of the past.
I wonder if that phone box, in the middle of the Abergwesyn Common, nine miles from Tregaron is still there?