Bring back the Phonebox

Onesimus

Should we bring back the phonebox? I mean much of the argument is that we all have mobile phones, but what if you left your house without it? or are in a dangerous situation where the police need to be called?

I think it should be brought back!!!

Sinfonia

Where do you live?

DubMedic

Most of them are still there, or have you noticed.

Drunken yobs happen to love smashing the glass on them though.

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Onesimus wrote: »

Should we bring back the phonebox? I mean much of the argument is that we all have mobile phones, but what if you left your house without it?

We'd bring phone-boxes instead. Simple.

m5ex9oqjawdg2i

So people can burn them out? Nah... put them up in places that people will respect them, but in the same places the phone box won't be used. Rural areas maybe, they have no place in the towns and cities of Ireland.

Abrasax

Eircom, in the last year removed about 50% of the public payphones in the country, presumably because everyone's got mobiles and they probably done a sweet deal selling them to some poorer country.

Biggins

A lot of them were removed due to cost of upkeep/lack of use/etc versus actual monetary revenue pulled in per location.

Abrasax

The Drug Dealer's Unions are up in arms.

DublinWriter

Bring back the old A-B button phoneboxes - we geeks knew how to make free calls on them!

Onesimus

Thread fail?

smiley girl

A few weeks ago I was walking down town with my sister and her 3 year old son. We passed a phone box and the little lad looks and it and says 'look, a phone!! Why is it outside though?'
Sign of the times????

stovelid

Perhaps you could create a papier mache phone box to wear around yourself when making and receiving calls on your mobile?

Onesimus

stovelid wrote: »

Perhaps you could create a papier mache phone box to wear around yourself when making and receiving calls on your mobile?

In a rainy country such as Ireland? I wouldnt go and patent that idea if I were you :D

Biggins

smiley girl wrote: »

A few weeks ago I was walking down town with my sister and her 3 year old son. We passed a phone box and the little lad looks and it and says 'look, a phone!! Why is it outside though?'
Sign of the times????

Aye, does anyone else find that just a wee bit sad?
..Maybe because I'm older. Sign of the times indeed.

up for anything

It's part of a conspiracy plot between Colin Farrell and Eircom.

--LOS--

they have no place in towns/cities, why not just use internet cafes, cheaper too.

Turtyturd

Deinitely should be brought back, and with taps and a hand dryer for when people are finished p*ssing in them.

Kintarō Hattori

Walking through Abbey street there today and saw two guys who looked completely out of it staggering into a phonebox. I'll presume they were up to no good as I've never seen anyone look more wasted. They didn't lift the phone to make a call and stood very close together. I didn't hang around and continued on my way.

Most of us have mobiles and at this stage they should be like your keys- you don't leave home without them.

lisao80

there is 2 in the village where i live.. but seeing as we have very bad mobile reception they are used quiet alot by tourists stayin in the village etc.

FlutterinBantam

Eircom have an 'obligation' to provide public phones.

Lot of them have been taken away recently... Westmoreland St/Baggot St outside the Hosp... Eglinton Tce , Blackrock outside the Library, Clondalkin Main St, Ballinteer Ave outside the Coach.


Always good for a dump those ones....:mad: sadly missed.

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There has been a notable absence of superheroes with the demise of the phonebox

A_Border_Bandit

Luna Howling Mower wrote: »

There has been a notable absence of superheroes with the demise of the phonebox

They have mobile heroes now too though...
http://www.pocket-lint.com/review/4178/htc-hero-mobile-phone-review

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A_Border_Bandit wrote: »

They have mobile heroes now too though...
http://www.pocket-lint.com/review/4178/htc-hero-mobile-phone-review

Jaysis, there's nuthin they dont think of now

Anyone else watching Phonebooth?

Latchy

Luna Howling Mower wrote: »

Anyone else watching Phonebooth?

Yes, have just dialed 911 to report next door neighbour who has tv up to loud

( can hear Colin Farrells anxious voice through walls ) :pac:

silvervixen84

Luna Howling Mower wrote: »

Jaysis, there's nuthin they dont think of now

Anyone else watching Phonebooth?

Yep, Farrell's accent is awful

There are still some public phones around, they just tend to get trashed by vandals and the phone companies couldn't be arsed fixing them

CrazyRabbit

Onesimus wrote: »

Should we bring back the phonebox? I mean much of the argument is that we all have mobile phones, but what if you left your house without it? or are in a dangerous situation where the police need to be called?

I think it should be brought back!!!

Superman, is that you?

yoshytoshy

They were always wrecked though ,people smashed them up and a lot of them were pi55ed in.

lifeinireland

Onesimus wrote: »

Should we bring back the phonebox? I mean much of the argument is that we all have mobile phones, but what if you left your house without it? or are in a dangerous situation where the police need to be called?

I think it should be brought back!!!

do you realise how much it cost to maintain these phone boxs due to vandalism we had 2 in our town i think ten times had to replace them,not a good idea,

Calibos

Wish they'd get rid of the phone box across from my house. I haven't seen a civilian use them in years but they're used daily by smackheads to ring their dealer. The only time they aren't used by the druggies is when the drunkies have smashed them up or the kiddies have blown them up with huge bangers.

Honestly, if privacy laws allowed these phones to be bugged/monitored by the police, the amount of intel they could gather would be staggering.

El Weirdo

Onesimus wrote: »

Thread fail?

Post fail.

cloneslad

Onesimus wrote: »

I mean much of the argument is that we all have mobile phones, but what if you left your house without it?

Without my mobile I wouldn't remember any numbers to call anyway!!

Ruu_Old

I like them, bring back calling cards as well. *eyes collection*

Seloth

I think villages should ave atleast one and towns should have only a very small number.

Tourists do use them,and if you've run out of credit((But have enough change for a call)) or if your battery has died they can be quite handy.

Dardania

I read somewhere on the interwebs last week that in Aus, they're converting phoneboxes to electric car changing stations. Makes sense - usually right beside a road, has a power source (for the light) and has a comms link...