> To cut to the chase, I think local councils are really upset that Telstra has the right to put these anywhere they want. Yes, as per the link I posted (which

> To cut to the chase, I think local councils are really upset that Telstra has the right to put these anywhere they want. Yes, as per the link I posted (which appears to predate your investigation by a number of years) I personally think that there needs to be a middle ground - Telstra have the real estate they do for the express purpose of providing access to a public phone, and I have no objection to them adding some advertising onto those. I do, however, find it difficult to agree to Telstra using that to justify building a much larger billboard that has little to no purpose relating to access to the public telephone network. Melbourne does not have any advertising on its pay phones now (not that I can think of, but I am going out some time this afternoon and will double check the CBD)