BT to scrap half of UK's remaining phone boxes after usage falls 90%

Company says it is to remove 20,000 booths, many of which are rarely if ever used for their intended purposeA much-loved but almost obsolete feature is set to vanish from thousands of British streets when BT presses button B to cancel calls in 20,000 phone boxes - a reference that would have to be explained to an entire digital generation which has never made a call from a public phone.Faced with soaring maintenance costs and plummeting usage, BT plans to scrap half of the UK’s remaining p