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New Eircom Phone Boxes around the place?.

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  • #62
    bk
    Moderators, Motoring & Transport Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 23,707 Mod ✭✭✭✭bk


    petronius wrote: »
    Had an odd situation whereby my sim card wasnt working for dialing out! yet i could connect to the internet via wifi - had to call a land line
    was looking for a phone box - do you think i could find one No - was wondering if there is an online map for the locations of boxes, i know if you have a phone why would you need to locate a phone box but strangely it was the case

    If the internet was working on your phone, then you could have used Skype Out or a similar VoIP app to call a phone.


  • #63
    SpaceTime
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,085 ✭✭✭SpaceTime


    petronius wrote: »
    Had an odd situation whereby my sim card wasnt working for dialing out! yet i could connect to the internet via wifi - had to call a land line
    was looking for a phone box - do you think i could find one No - was wondering if there is an online map for the locations of boxes, i know if you have a phone why would you need to locate a phone box but strangely it was the case

    I'm a bit confused.

    WiFi isn't anything to do with your SIM card.

    Ericom are desperately trying to get rid of payphones as they cost a lot of money to maintain and they're making almost no revenue out of them in most cases.
    There's no online map, as there's nobody using them. I don't think it's a high priority for anyone to spend time and resources on.

    They're removing any with average daily usage under 1 minute per day.
    (That's 37% of the remainder!)

    Only 92 of them actually are 'economic' to operate! The rest make a significant lost and just cost us all money via our line rental bills.


  • #64
    Victor
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 78,839 ✭✭✭✭Victor


    Incomplete, but www.openstreetmap.org has some phone boxes marked, .e.g here: ther eis one marked south west of the junction: http://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=19/53.33260/-6.26492

    I wonder how whole the accounting is in that calculation. Many phone boxes are carrying advertising and have Wi-Fi antennae for their own customers. The location marked above still has 4 kiosks - if they were making no money, that would have been reduced to one a long time ago. ComReg hasn't objected to reductions in the number of phones, but the number of locations.


  • #65
    SpaceTime
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,085 ✭✭✭SpaceTime


    They're already completely gone in an increasing number of countries. Belgium for example has none anymore.


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