[waterhog]

you can coin it BT and care for your redbox 28.11.17

last year it was impressive
highgate can not have contributed
the pay to display was excessive
i left it poemless and only flyers that polluted.
14.5 million is wealthy
money and poetry is the detox
keeping me healthy
it was twice a week to that red box.
20 000 to be removed
the village people will out max
a beautiful feature that soothed
they won't play franky and relax.
47 000 are exercising
trade must be brisk
not by hookers but advertising
its all above board on the payroll disc.
the red box is calling
its paying for the upkeep
the poetry idea was appalling
let me ring 118 as maureen says cheap.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-40934210

[Livia]

Hmmm. Part of BT's contract when they became independent from the GPO was that, whatever happened, they would retain the same number of public telephone boxes. Now, I know that everyone's got a mobile, but the red public telephone box is an icon, not an eyesore and a contract is a contract. My local village has red phone box with a telephone, but it also houses the defibrillator. BT should want to keep these boxes and should be thinking more creatively about how that could happen.