>And yet, they do. According to Ofcom, 5m calls are still made from phone boxes annually. Five million! It seems impossible. >Thousands of people apparently

>And yet, they do. According to Ofcom, 5m calls are still made from phone boxes annually. Five million! It seems impossible. >Thousands of people apparently still use them. I wanted to know who they were and why, when technology had long ago surpassed what a phone box could offer >On Oxford Street, I passed a tourist shop whose window display included a shelf of miniature red phone boxes >Martin White, owner of a company, X2 Connect, which repairs and resells old phone boxes that BT has removed ...They get plenty of overseas buyers, too, who want their own bit of British kitsch. White had recently shipped one off to a shopping mall in Dubai. I suspect that the second two quotes go some way to explaining the first two. I'd imagine a significant amount of those 5 million calls are made by tourists, for the experience of ringing someone from an iconic red telephone box.