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Title: Phone box to be removed at Seathwaite
Post by: rural roamer on 08:12:36, 13/09/16

saw this on Facebook
https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=1336942406323795&id=980955948589111
May be of interest to many on here
Title: Re: Phone box to be removed at Seathwaite
Post by: pdstsp on 16:54:31, 13/09/16
Looks like BT have backed down:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cumbria-37347070


Good outcome.
Title: Re: Phone box to be removed at Seathwaite
Post by: old geezer on 14:29:28, 04/02/17
Is there a mobile signal now at Seathwaite then.There wasn't two years ago.
Title: Re: Phone box to be removed at Seathwaite
Post by: Dyffryn Ardudwy on 11:32:07, 05/02/17
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?
Title: Re: Phone box to be removed at Seathwaite
Post by: craven50 on 17:26:08, 05/02/17
Is there a mobile signal now at Seathwaite then.There wasn't two years ago.

Shouldn't think so :( . But since BT is a private foreign company thanks to a certain politician and the governments ethos at the time. They are removing public phone boxes wholesale. It's profit what drives them nowadays not a public service. Plus all  "public" transport. That gives me a laugh as well :(