Belgium lwa take farewell of the last public phone booth

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Monday disappears, the last public phone booth in Belgium lwa. The telefoonkot to the Middelheimlaan Antwerp was three days long, the only remaining phone booth in Belgium lwa, but now it is also for this phone box the cloth.

Friday was the last phone booth in Belgium is already shut down, in the Wallonian hills. Now the telephone booth to the Middelheimlaan also has disappeared, it has absolutely no payphones anymore.

According to Proximus, until recently, Belgacom is called – there is no more money to earn with telephone booths, thanks to the rise of the mobile phone. At the peak was one of 18,000 cells. In 1997, an average of fifteen hours per month per cell phone call, but in 2012 that dropped to an average of fourteen minutes per cell per month.

Until 2013 was a Proximus required to the payphone to maintain, but the Belgian government then decided that this obligation was no longer needed, because the mobile phone, the phone now has replaced. Proximus wants to be the end of the phone not go unnoticed: the want thirty phone booths to a new destination, for example, in a museum or as an art.

In the Netherlands are still telephone booths. KPN has the phone booths sold, but the company RBL Telecom has taken in part. At this time, the company has 440 booths. Cheap call from a payphone: 10 cents per ten seconds to a fixed number, or the same amount per five seconds for a mobile number. At the beginning of this century the Netherlands had still twenty thousand payphones.