“In the past six years nearly 17,000 payphones have disappeared, and initial reports suggested Telstra wanted to cut 5000 of the 32,000 that remain.
“The carrier says the future of the phone box is in the public’s hands – and the public is increasingly turning to mobiles. Users have taken out 18.4 million mobile phone subscriptions, far more than those for fixed home lines.”
Read more at the Sydney Morning Herald.