Belgium to dismantle 4,000 phone booths

Belgian incumbent telco Belgacom has announced it is to scrap roughly 4,000 of the country's telephone booths because so few people are using them anymore, according to DMEurope.

"With some 75 per cent of the population now using mobile phones, the company says that the number of calls made from phone booths has fallen by around 76 per cent since 1998. Belgacom says that only 14 per cent of its booths are profitable.

There are some 14,000 phone booths in the country, and the company has said that if mobile penetration rises to 80 per cent, a further 2,000 booths will be mothballed".

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