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.

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A good site for basic information about Swiss communes – phones, addresses, communal tax rate and more – is the official communes site, communal.ch. It’s easy to use and is in English as well as the official Swiss languages.