About 5,000 phone boxes around the UK will be kept open if they fulfil certain criteria, says Ofcom.
Ofcom, the UK telecoms regulator, said it will stop BT from closing down 5,000 phone boxes in areas with poor mobile signals or high accident rates, if they are still needed by local communities.
At their peak, there were around 92,000 phone boxes in the UK, but now 96% of UK adults own a mobile phone.About 6,000 of the kiosks have been adopted by local authorities for other purposes, such as book exchanges. Selina Chadha, Ofcom's Director of Connectivity, said: "Some of the call boxes we plan to protect are used to make relatively low numbers of calls. But if one of those calls is from a distressed child, an accident victim or someone contemplating suicide, that public phone line can be a lifeline at a time of great need.
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