london question

[dvtimes]

how come some phone boxes were black and others red.

these were the old style boxes.

i noticed this walking around london before the meet up.

[Damian]

Cos someone other than BT has a phone in them.

[Jay K]

Phone boxes in London are now sponsored by certain establishments looking to promote girls. I believe part of the deal is you get a choice of 2 colours. I think the red boxes show off the tart cards better, but the black colour is "in" this year.

[smoothballs]

sure your not confusing them with the old style "police boxes2 (they look like the tardis) that are scattered around london? Well I know they have one in earls court area when I stayed there for my three U2 gigs in one week! hehe

[S.D.]

http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/41678000/jpg/_41678392_sexcards203.jpg

[Elisha Jade]

how come some phone boxes were black and others red.

these were the old style boxes.

i noticed this walking around london before the meet up.

To be fair, I wondered why as well!! lol

[AllRuth]

how come some phone boxes were black and others red.

these were the old style boxes.

i noticed this walking around london before the meet up.

I'm not sure; but I *think* the Black phone boxes are newish and only in Camden?

[dvtimes]

I'm not sure; but I *think* the Black phone boxes are newish and only in Camden?they looked old, like the red type.

at one street there was a red one on one side and a black one on the other.

if anyone is in london can they go out and have a look please.

[Geezer]

The black ones are for all the Northern monkeys

[AllRuth]

The black ones are for all the Northern monkeys

Yeah... urgh I hate North London.

Maybe the black paint was cheaper?

[Therapy]

http://www.milesfaster.co.uk/gallery/london/assorted/black-phone-box.htm

[AllRuth]

http://www.milesfaster.co.uk/gallery/london/assorted/black-phone-box.htm

But why?!

[dvtimes]

see thats what i mean

you would think it would be red being london

unless its just to have a different look.

[ApacheAnderson]

But why?!

2nd post in the thread has the answer!

Note: if you're have to ring 999 run to a red one, as although most of the black ones do provide emergency services they don't have to. BT ones do by law.

[AllRuth]

2nd post in the thread has the answer!

Note: if you're have to ring 999 run to a red one, as although most of the black ones do provide emergency services they don't have to. BT ones do by law.

Really? I just assumed that being able to dial 999 from public phone boxes was a requirement by law?

http://www.ofcom.org.uk/consumeradvice/landline/payphones/payphonecost/

[Boobie]

The black ones are for all the Northern monkeys
looooooool good one!

[NumptyNuts]

phone boxes are traditional in shape here and cream!!!!!!!!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/olmedia/1655000/images/_1659939_kingbbc300.jpg

[ApacheAnderson]

Really? I just assumed that being able to dial 999 from public phone boxes was a requirement by law?

http://www.ofcom.org.uk/consumeradvice/landline/payphones/payphonecost/

It gets quite confusing.

Ofcom will only enforce some of it's regulations if the company is a dominant player (i.e BT). I believe that all of these alternate payphone do provide 999 service but if they didn't Ofcom can only tell them off. If it was BT they get a massive fine.

This came up recently when some VOIP providers didn't provide 999 services, but BTs VOIP service has to or they will be fined.