Smartphones and mobile networks might be near ubiquitous, but the UK government is keen to protect its heritage of iconic red public phone boxes. UK communications regulator Ofcom has announced plans ...

Few things are as quintessentially British as a red telephone box. In Covent Garden, in central London, tourists queue to pose for selfies with the analogue receivers. But locals are more familiar ...

Councils given more time to reclaim a British insititution... BT has given local authorities more time to step in to save thousands of iconic red phone boxes that the telco is looking to axe. Councils ...

LONDON (AP) — Thousands of Britain’s iconic red phone boxes will be protected from removal under new rules, the U.K.'s telecommunications regulator said Tuesday. The public payphone boxes may look ...

The phone box is still one of the most iconic structures of our time. But what happened to our humble kiosk? There is no doubt the mobile phone killed off the phone box and as years went by the ...

"Dirty" and "grubby" telephone boxes are a blight on a city centre, say local residents, who are calling for upgraded, digital communication kiosks to replace them. Critics of the phone boxes in ...