Does anyone know what happened to the Eurobell public street payphone kiosks?
I haven't seen them in a while, has Telewest withdrawn the service?
Telewest could introduce a new public payphone service to compete against BT and in some areas of london; NWP Spectrum.
If Telewest operated public payphones, then they could make a lot of money by allowing companies to advertise on the kiosk glass,take advantage of using there own telephone network to avoid paying line rental to BT and operating internet units which could allow the public to access Blueyonder Broadband internet on the move! Telewest would make thousands.
However these services would only be commercially viable on high streets and large residential areas were the Telewest networks is present.
Companies who advertise on kiosk glass pay a lot of money each month to advertise on the kiosks and would therefore pay for maintainance and generate profit. Customers making voice calls and accessing internet would also generate profit.
If telewest does this, then NTL and Wight Cable should follow.
Interphone Public Networks: (The orange coloured kiosks and former Mercury Payphone network) owned by Central Payphones (Infolines) went bankrupt because the previous owners (Premier Group) (
www.premier-payphones.co.uk) neglected the payphone kiosks and fell into a bad state of disrepair and Central Payphones ran out of money. Now, most interphone kiosks have been replaced by new kiosks under NWP Spectrum's ownership(
www.nwpspectrum.co.uk) Some payphones in central London are connected to the Cable and wireless and NTL networks. The company decided not to use Telewest anymore because they cannot pass any commision to the payphone company when people call 0800 numbers. NWP Spectrum has also ceased some of it's NTL lines and switched to BT Wholesale.
More information on payphones operated by BT and other companies can be found at
www.redphonebox.info