No More Phones For Farmers?

BT has recently announced that they are cutting the light out of a lot of their phone boxes across the rural parts of the country. If you are trying to get on the phone to someone at 3 in the morning how are you going to be able to do this with no light?

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 something that really could cause problems when it comes to an 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 been arguing that a lot of people are now using things like mobile phones however in rural areas the coverage is still not that great so congratulations there BT.

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 fax to email, call conferencing and of course if there are no lights you may need some mobile phone insurance.