Should Eir be allowed remove most payphones?

Never Say Never Again

Eir want to remove 90 percent of the remaining payphone network but comreg are refusing to allow them do this as they belive poor people need payphones. I dont know way comreg think this because using a payphone now costs €2 per min but you can buy a very basic mobile phone in delz for a fiver.

lawred2

Never Say Never Again wrote: »

Eir want to remove 90 percent of the remaining payphone network but comreg are refusing to allow them do this as they belive poor people need payphones. I dont know way comreg think this because using a payphone now costs €2 per min but you can buy a very basic mobile phone in delz for a fiver.

I'd say that the majority of payphone users are criminals.

I'm not sure what decade comreg are in but it isn't this one.

GetWithIt

The only people who need pay phones are junkies going for a dump.

Filed under: "The things you see from the top of a double decker bus"

Are Am Eye

Superheroes

the_pen_turner

I don't remember the last time I saw a pay phone being used or in a condition that it could be used. they all seem to be broken or used as a toilet

Grab All Association

At least two payphones with reverse charging is needed in every town. Last Monday during the early hours in Thurles a woman's phone and bag were stolen at a disco in a very famous hotel. She was waiting over 5 hours in the snow for the 9am Nenagh bus wearing only a dress. The hotel apparently her removed by AGS who also wouldn't help her. Will never go to that hotel for lunch again.

A phone box and reverse calling and she may have got home a lot earlier. I honestly don't know how she survived in that weather.

Ubbquittious

We might as well get rid of all the ringbouys and all those emergency SOS phones by the side of the motorway as well. Sure everyone has new brand new reliable jetskis and mercs now with this new celtic tiger roaring it's head off.

Noveight

I didn't know there were payphones still operating. There are none left in the towns and villages in my part of the country, can't remember the last time I saw one.

Agent Coulson

They should do what is done in London and other cities with phone boxes turn them into free public hotspots.

Esel

"Press Button A, caller!"

mad muffin

Back in the day I used to stuff paper up the coin return slot of my local payphone.

Gatling

Grab All Association wrote: »

A phone box and reverse calling and she may have got home a lot earlier. I honestly don't know how she survived in that weather.

Maybe next bring trousers with you

boombang

As soon as these dirty eyesores can be removed the better. Regarding the woman who needed to make a reverse charge call: who wouldn't let somebody genuinely in need use their landline or mobile.

mad muffin

boombang wrote: »

As soon as these dirty eyesores can be removed the better. Regarding the woman who needed to make a reverse charge call: who wouldn't let somebody genuinely in need use their landline or mobile.

I wouldn’t hand over my phone to anyone. Even if they were on fire.

Hand over a €1300 phone to a complete stranger? Are you mad?

colm_mcm

€1300 phone, are YOU mad

mad muffin

colm_mcm wrote: »

€1300 phone, are YOU mad

You say potato I say potato.

El Weirdo

Grab All Association wrote: »

At least two payphones with reverse charging is needed in every town. Last Monday during the early hours in Thurles a woman's phone and bag were stolen at a disco in a very famous hotel. She was waiting over 5 hours in the snow for the 9am Nenagh bus wearing only a dress. The hotel apparently her removed by AGS who also wouldn't help her. Will never go to that hotel for lunch again.

A phone box and reverse calling and she may have got home a lot earlier. I honestly don't know how she survived in that weather.

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Junkyard Tom

Grab All Association wrote: »

Last Monday during the early hours in Thurles a woman's phone and bag were stolen at a disco in a very famous hotel. She was waiting over 5 hours in the snow for the 9am Nenagh bus wearing only a dress. The hotel apparently her removed by AGS who also wouldn't help her.

I find this difficult to believe.

Tin Foil Hat

Grab All Association wrote: »

At least two payphones with reverse charging is needed in every town. Last Monday during the early hours in Thurles a woman's phone and bag were stolen at a disco in a very famous hotel. She was waiting over 5 hours in the snow for the 9am Nenagh bus wearing only a dress. The hotel apparently her removed by AGS who also wouldn't help her. Will never go to that hotel for lunch again.

A phone box and reverse calling and she may have got home a lot earlier. I honestly don't know how she survived in that weather.

In fairness, the problem here isn't lack of payphones. It's arseholes.

frag420

mad muffin wrote: »

You say potato I say potato.

You know that only works when you say it...

Del2005

Junkyard Tom wrote: »

I find this difficult to believe.

+1

How many people go to nightclubs on their own.

The other issue is that I doubt many people know anyone's number anymore so even if you have a phone you won't be able to call anyone.

Harry Palmr

The only phone boxes that should be left are the proper ones and they are essentially national monuments at this stage

mad muffin

frag420 wrote: »

You know that only works when you say it...

What? You don’t know how to say potato and potato?

Junkyard Tom

Del2005 wrote: »

How many people go to nightclubs on their own.

How many Hotels kick out a lone woman resident who has been a victim of theft?

How many cops throw a woman out of a hotel onto the side of the road in a dress, in the snow, with no phone/money.

This story is a fabrication or distortion.

frag420

mad muffin wrote: »

What? You don’t know how to say potato and potato?

You say potato, I say shpud!!

Or chips, sometimes I say chips!

boombang

Although maybe if she'd had a comfortable phone box to sleep in she'd have been able to get a bit of kip amidst the stench of piss while waiting for the bus.

I can remember the final year before I had a mobile. Payphones swallowed so much money on me it was a total false economy. It would be idiotic to suggest people should not have a phone to save money. Comreg should do the last remaining luddites a favour and get rid of every last payphone.

fritzelly

Strange, noticed several phone box around Dublin city that have been stripped clean basically very recently

Junkyard Tom

Grab All Association wrote: »

Last Monday during the early hours in Thurles a woman's phone and bag were stolen at a disco in a very famous hotel. She was waiting over 5 hours in the snow for the 9am Nenagh bus wearing only a dress. The hotel apparently her removed by AGS who also wouldn't help her.

I insist that you voluntarily retract this scurrilous tale Sir.

Grab All Association

Junkyard Tom wrote: »

I insist that you voluntarily retract this scurrilous tale Sir.

Bernard Kavanagh/Shamrock bus driver and at least 4 other passengers can vouch for this. One guy who lives on Pallas Street Borrisoleigh gave the girl a loan of his hoody. He wears a green coat and stands at Banba Square Nenagh at 5:50pm most days. Farmer who gets on the bus at 9:15am outside the GAA grounds Borrisoleigh, Monday to Saturday they get on the bus.
SVP shop in Nenagh (where the girl entered too no doubt to get some clothes I assume )
There's also CCTV cameras in Liberty Square

Junkyard Tom

Grab All Association wrote: »

Bernard Kavanagh/Shamrock bus driver and at least 4 other passengers can vouch for this.

They can vouch that she told this story.

One guy who lives on Pallas Street Borrisoleigh gave the girl a loan of his hoody.

But couldn't give her a loan of his phone so that she could phone a friend?

I just can't believe that a Hotel would kick out a recently robbed resident in nothing but her dress aided by the Gardai.

Grab All Association

Junkyard Tom wrote: »

They can vouch that she told this story.



But couldn't give her a loan of his phone so that she could phone a friend?

I just can't believe that a Hotel would kick out a recently robbed resident in nothing but her dress aided by the Gardai.

The driver said to her are you sure you don't want to call someone and she said it was fine. I think the girl who sat talking to her let her text someone.

That's why I said apparently. I don't know what happened earlier in the hotel. She claimed she refused to leave and they called AGS and they escorted her out. She got on the bus in Liberty Square with nothing on her. She said she left her coat in a friend's car and I assume because her stuff was stolen couldn't retrieve it. Her skin was red raw though and you could tell she was out in the weather for a few hours.

FanadMan

Esel wrote:

"Press Button A, caller!"

Jeez, remember that so well. Along with the wind ringer thingie to get through to the exchange.

Junkyard Tom

Grab All Association wrote: »

The driver said to her are you sure you don't want to call someone and she said it was fine. I think the girl who sat talking to her let her text someone.

That's why I said apparently. I don't know what happened earlier in the hotel. She claimed she refused to leave and they called AGS and they escorted her out. She got on the bus in Liberty Square with nothing on her. She said she left her coat in a friend's car and I assume because her stuff was stolen couldn't retrieve it. Her skin was red raw though and you could tell she was out in the weather for a few hours.

You know what I think?

A. You're a telephone box spotter/enthusiast and don't want to see them being removed from our towns and cities.

B. You have a vendetta against the hotel in Thurles because they were rude to you once.

So which is it? A or B?

You have 30 seconds to choose.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=73tGe3JE5IU

Del2005

Grab All Association wrote: »

Bernard Kavanagh/Shamrock bus driver and at least 4 other passengers can vouch for this. One guy who lives on Pallas Street Borrisoleigh gave the girl a loan of his hoody. He wears a green coat and stands at Banba Square Nenagh at 5:50pm most days. Farmer who gets on the bus at 9:15am outside the GAA grounds Borrisoleigh, Monday to Saturday they get on the bus.
SVP shop in Nenagh (where the girl entered too no doubt to get some clothes I assume )
There's also CCTV cameras in Liberty Square

I'd say that the story is as true as the woman kicked out of Primark for breastfeeding.

Mr. CooL ICE

Never believe anything that apparently happened in Tipperary

kylith

Was considering turning a local phone booth into a library, as some people have done in the UK; but round here they'd only set it on fire.

biko

Make them into

wakka12

I don't see why they should be removed! Why not keep a couple good condition ones in very central areas with a lot of footfall so theyre not used as toilets. They're always handy if you lose your phone, or have no credit, and also for foreign people as roaming charges and such are messy and complicated so they mightn't have a usable phone

wakka12

kylith wrote: »

Was considering turning a local phone booth into a library, as some people have done in the UK; but round here they'd only set it on fire.

It could work in little towns outside dublin. But in dublin no, they'd just be stolen from, pissed on and probably set on fire too yes

wakka12

Harry Palmr wrote: »

The only phone boxes that should be left are the proper ones and they are essentially national monuments at this stage

I wonder why they don't keep making ones that look like that. The glass box ericom ones look like utter ****.

Del2005

wakka12 wrote: »

I wonder why they don't keep making ones that look like that. The glass box ericom ones look like utter ****.

Money. They require a lot to manufacture and maintain, if someone breaks the windows, whereas the glass box is a few pressed aluminium sheets and a few windows.

5rtytry56

Del2005 wrote: »

Money. They require a lot to manufacture and maintain, if someone breaks the windows, whereas the glass box is a few pressed aluminium sheets and a few windows.

And they'd still be used as receptacles for Sleeping Bags in disgusting condition with congealed bodily fluid in them, as well as graffiti.

wakka12

Del2005 wrote: »

Money. They require a lot to manufacture and maintain, if someone breaks the windows, whereas the glass box is a few pressed aluminium sheets and a few windows.

They just look nice though, i don't see why they'd necessarily need to have glass in them anyway. That one pictured above would still look good with no glass

SEPT 23 1989

Paulie never trusted phones and he was proved right

vectorvictor

For many in the homeless community payphones are the only way of accessing the charade that is the homeless freephone accommodation line. You will generally see a rush to them at 430pm and 1030pm when the lines open for their first and second allocations.

Cue the uneducated out of touch junkie comments

Oasis1974

boombang wrote: »

As soon as these dirty eyesores can be removed the better. Regarding the woman who needed to make a reverse charge call: who wouldn't let somebody genuinely in need use their landline or mobile.

Homeless sleep in phone boxes in Dumpland?

J.pilkington

Grab All Association wrote: »

At least two payphones with reverse charging is needed in every town. Last Monday during the early hours in Thurles a woman's phone and bag were stolen at a disco in a very famous hotel. She was waiting over 5 hours in the snow for the 9am Nenagh bus wearing only a dress. The hotel apparently her removed by AGS who also wouldn't help her. Will never go to that hotel for lunch again.

A phone box and reverse calling and she may have got home a lot earlier. I honestly don't know how she survived in that weather.

I’d love to hear the other side of the story from the two sets of 3rd parties. Something tells me she wasn’t the innocent victim you’ve been led to believe!!!

Captain Obvious

I think the main concerns are victims of domestic violence and people with depression. Payphones offer a degree of confidentiality for these people.

Never Say Never Again

But they removed them from most rural villages about 7 years ago so i don't see how that argument stacks up

mikemac2

Phone wreckers are idiots!

I feel old that I remember this ad

Del2005

wakka12 wrote: »

They just look nice though, i don't see why they'd necessarily need to have glass in them anyway. That one pictured above would still look good with no glass

Sound proofing for both external noise and privacy of conversion, as otherwise we may as well just hang the phone on a wall. Though the amount of people who carry out full intimate phone calls on speakers means that most don't care about privacy, but you still need some way to reduce external noise as you can't duck out of the wind with a wired phone.