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Elion switches off Estonia’s last payphones
Juhan Tere, BC, Tallinn, 01.12.2010.
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Print versionTelecommunications company Elion switched off the last of payphones in Estonia on Wednesday, LETA/Õhtuleht Online writes.
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Elion’s private clients segment manager Silver Soomre said that the payphone service is outdated and there is no general interest or need for it anymore.
“The average usage volume of payphones has fallen to 1 minute per payphone a day,” he said.
In 1997 when the installation of modern payphones using chip cards was completed, there were 3,000 of them in Estonia. Now there are just about 550, most of them in Tallinn. While in 2004 still 6 million minutes worth of calls were made from payphones, now it is 30 times smaller due to the wide spread of cell phones.
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