Public Telephone Booths

In a sign of the mobile times, public telephone booths at stations are no longer a 'minimum essential amenity' for passengers with the railways adding universal charging points and nursing stations to the list instead, officials said.

Even the most British of icons are constantly evolving. BMW redesigned the Mini; the classic double-decker bus fell out of favor, then came back into fashion; the black London taxi will soon go electric. With the mobile phone effectively wiping out everyday use of public telephone booths, what will become of the beloved scarlet-red kiosks that once...

Probe into three bomb threat calls - claiming that there would be an explosion in the Prime Minister's aircraft - received at the Pallavaram police station on Monday-shows that they originated from a public telephone booth and two mobile phones. Mystery surrounds the call from one of the cell phone numbers, which allegedly belongs to a police const...

In a sign of the mobile times, public telephone booths at stations are no longer a 'minimum essential amenity' for passengers with the railways adding universal charging points and nursing stations to the list instead, officials said.

Even the most British of icons are constantly evolving. BMW redesigned the Mini; the classic double-decker bus fell out of favor, then came back into fashion; the black London taxi will soon go electric. With the mobile phone effectively wiping out everyday use of public telephone booths, what will become of the beloved scarlet-red kiosks that once...

Probe into three bomb threat calls - claiming that there would be an explosion in the Prime Minister's aircraft - received at the Pallavaram police station on Monday-shows that they originated from a public telephone booth and two mobile phones. Mystery surrounds the call from one of the cell phone numbers, which allegedly belongs to a police const...