Emergency

BT are refusing to replace many of the bulbs because they are saying that a lot of the boxes are simply not used enough but the people that live around the area are really annoyed because if they have to go out and make a call they are having to take a torch with them or dial in darkness.

This is certainly something that could really cause problems when there is a bad emergency. Can you imagine trying to look for a torch if your house was on fire just so you could go out to a pay phone and make the call. The thing is, many people already panic if they have to rush off to the phone box in the middle of the night, can you imagine if the light was off.

The counter argument

BT have argued that people are just using mobile phones now but the fact is that many people are still getting poor reception in rural areas meaning they are going to have to use the call boxes.

The stupid thing is that it only costs BT £9 a year to run a bulb on one of these phone boxes which works at around 3p a day which is a lot less than it costs for a minute of talk to one of their lousy team members!

However there are of course many other ways you can call someone or get in contact with them such as using services like 0800 numbers, call conferencing and of course if there are no lights you may need some mobile phone insurance.