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Red telephone booths are the same symbols of British Empire as Big Ben, The Tower and double-decker buses. However, the wide distribution of cell phone connection replaces the usage of telephone booths, and soon London can loose the red booths, which are so loved by citizens and tourists.
For the last five years the number of telephone booths in Great Britain has declined by thirty-three thousands. And more than one-third of those 62 thousands remained are profitless. The largest British telecommunication company British Telecom, that owns booths throughout the country, sustains serious losses.
European Commission is going to release "green book" about further destiny of the telephone booths in the changing world and to disengage British Telecom from the necessity to maintain telephone booths in working order.
The first red telephone booth appeared in London in the year 1926. Today there remained only thirteen thousand old traditional red booths. The rest ones are more modern glass or plastic cabins.
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