{"id":18536,"date":"2019-05-02T10:40:38","date_gmt":"2019-05-02T09:40:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/?p=18536"},"modified":"2019-05-02T15:23:56","modified_gmt":"2019-05-02T14:23:56","slug":"bt-ask-uk-communities-to-adopt-old-local-phone-boxes-for-1-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2019\/05\/bt-ask-uk-communities-to-adopt-old-local-phone-boxes-for-1-again.html","title":{"rendered":"BT Ask UK Communities to Adopt Old Local Phone Boxes for \u00a31.. 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With more than 5,800 payphones now adopted across the UK, this is a fantastic opportunity for communities to own a piece of history.<\/p>\n<p>The opportunities are endless and we\u2019ve already seen some amazing transformations. Applying is easy and quick and we\u2019re always happy to speak to communities about adopting our traditional BT red payphone boxes.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Meanwhile BT are also replacing more than 1,000 payphones in major cities across the UK with new digital hubs called (InLinks), which offer free ultrafast public <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/wifi\">WiFi<\/a>, free UK phone calls, USB device charging and more.<\/p>\n<table width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"2\" cellpadding=\"2\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"bq3\"><strong>Region<\/strong><\/td>\n<td class=\"bq3\"><strong>No of red boxes available for adoption<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>South West<\/td>\n<td>970<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Scotland<\/td>\n<td>741<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>London<\/td>\n<td>555<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>South East<\/td>\n<td>497<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Yorkshire and The Humber<\/td>\n<td>433<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Wales<\/td>\n<td>419<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>East of England<\/td>\n<td>368<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>West Midlands<\/td>\n<td>282<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>East Midlands<\/td>\n<td>273<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>North West<\/td>\n<td>267<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>North East<\/td>\n<td>38<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>Total<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>4,843<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BT has once again called upon local communities from across England and Wales to help adopt one of their old public phone boxes, many of which are now standing disused, for just \u00a31 in order to &#8220;turn them into something inspirational&#8221; for their local area (i.e. a change of use from being adopted as a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[474],"class_list":["post-18536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uk_isp_news","tag-bt"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>BT Ask UK Communities to Adopt Old Local Phone Boxes for \u00a31.. 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