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BT to remove cash facility from Chilterns payphones
BRITISH Telecom are scrapping the cash payment facility from 14 public payphones in the Chilterns to help prevent theft and vandalism.
The company have chosen the payphones as they have been hit by ongoing attacks and hope that by making them cashless the maintenance costs they incur because of these will be lowered.
As a result the following payphones will now only accept BT chargecards, credit cards or debit cards while accepting reverse charges and emergency calls.
They are in Station Road, Plantation Road, Highland Road and Whielden Lane, in Amersham, and The Common and Watchet Lane, in Holmer Green.
Also the payphones in junction of Berkeley Avenue and Chartridge Lane, Missenden Road, the junction of Beechcroft Road and Lowndes Avenue, Cowper Road, and the junction of Reading Room and Chartridge Lane, in Chesham.
The facility in High Street and Crocketts Lane, in Great Missenden, will also be changed.
Rick Thomson, of BT, said: "The removal of the cash facility prevents ongoing theft and vandalism caused by cash attacks in some areas.
"We have chosen these sites simply because customers do not make enough calls to justify BT collecting the cash from them."
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