Gerard Craughwell (Independent) | Oireachtas source

I can understand the commercial reason for the withdrawal of telephone boxes by the dominant player. I have just come back from the UK where I drove through Wiltshire and Somerset. There were telephone boxes all over the place. God help anyone who has a gammy battery in a mobile phone or who just never switched over to mobile phones and does not have a phone at home. I do not suppose there is much ComReg can do about it but it leaves us with a sort of dearth in the communication system in the country.