Oddly enough the Irish equivalent of the FCC, ComReg, made a small number of pay phones a part of the ‘Universal Service Obligations’ for the ‘incumbent fixed line operator.’
The result has been they’ve contracted out the sites (all of which are prominent locations) to an advertising company. So they’re now electronic billboards with a pay phone stuck to the back of them and all branding has been removed. I assume the telco didn’t want their brand anywhere near that kind of street furniture.
They claim to be “a public service” but in reality it’s just a skinny electronic billboard with a phone providing it with an excuse to be there.
The result has been they’ve contracted out the sites (all of which are prominent locations) to an advertising company. So they’re now electronic billboards with a pay phone stuck to the back of them and all branding has been removed. I assume the telco didn’t want their brand anywhere near that kind of street furniture.
They claim to be “a public service” but in reality it’s just a skinny electronic billboard with a phone providing it with an excuse to be there.
