One less place to change in a hurry - Swisscom to close phone booths

Bern, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – Swisscom wants to close down little-used phonebooths around Switzerland, reports Swiss-German weekly Sonntagszeitung. There are still about 8,100 phone booths on public land, but many are not used more than once or twice a week. This is down from 12,900 in 1998, when Swisscom was still legally obliged to maintain at least one phone booth in each commune, no longer the case.

The former Swiss communications monopoly will ask individual communes around the country about closing the most unprofitable ones.

Swisscom spokesman Olaf Schulze told the newspaper that if a commune insists on keeping its phone booth, Swisscom will not oppose the move. The company does not forsee much resistance from communes to its plan.

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