Posted on April 17, 2025 by LVsA
They are battling hard to keep it.
ES-UK – 16apr2025.
Good News!
On top of this, several BBC Journalists have contacted us – they are looking at doing a bigger feature on Phone Boxes across the UK and now is the time to build on this momentum! The Copper Analogue Landline Network is critical for National Security and needs to be protected in Law. This will need coordinated action and below are Four Actions that you can take for:
National Telephone Action:Save your Phone Box: Organise a Save/Reinstate Our Phone Box Event and invite the local Press. If there is no Phone Box, demand it back. If it is still there, ensure that the Phone Box is used for the minimum 52 calls per year needed to be kept. If the phone doesn’t work, call BT on 0800345144 (the number is normally on the board next to the phone) and/or email: customer.serv.payphones@bt.com
Phone Home: If you are traveling, make a call from any phone box you can see! If you live in – or visit – North Devon, please call from the coin operated Phone box at Ilfracombe Harbour – the Phone Box with the most beautiful view in the World! If time, make another call from the Phone Box outside the Community Centre on Church Street, Combe Martin – you can park at the nearby carpark by the beautiful St Peter Ad Vincula Church. Calls from there are free to UK landlines and mobiles! If it doesn’t work – they said they would repair it, but I don’t trust ’em! – contact BT on the above number or email address. There is a Community Soup Kitchen near the Phone Box which serves delicious vegan soups on Tuesday and Thursday mornings, so if possible time your call with that!
Contact the Media: Contact the Media to express your concern about a Phone Box (or lack of one) near you and/or the general loss of the Phone Box + the phasing out of the analogue copper landline. Here are contact details for three BBC reporters who have shown interest in the issue:
Malcolm Prior: malcolm.prior@bbc.co.uk
Filipa Gaspar: filipa.gaspar@swns.com Andy Alcroft: 07711910990
Contact your MP: If you haven’t done so already, please contact your Political Representative for a visit and request that the Copper Analogue Landline is protected in UK Law. Gladly present the “Save our Copper Analogue Landlines“ Petition, which now stands on well over 2:600 signatures. There are hundreds of poignant comments by the signatories, kindly see enclosed document. which you can present with the Petition. Herebelow is a Draft Email for you to adapt and use.
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