In the UK BT has been doing somthing similar in towns and cities with phone boxes that are basically advertsting hoardings with with a phone attached. ISTR read

In the UK BT has been doing somthing similar in towns and cities with phone boxes that are basically advertsting hoardings with with a phone attached. ISTR reading some grumblings about how they were somewhat misuing favourable planning law treatment of phone boxes for these. This new set of rules is presumably more applicable to rural and suburban phone boxed that won't have many favourable alternative uses or revenue sources.