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JUST OVER 500 phone calls have been made to date on each of 63 so-called “digital kiosks” Eir installed since 2021 to replace older phone boxes – and to support large LED advertising screens.
At least a third of the “digital kiosks” have been in place for over three years now, with the remainder installed since.
Eir told The Journal that 33,000 calls had been made on the kiosks as of the end of September – an average of 524 per kiosk to date. The state stopped requiring to Eir to provide payphones in 2020, following a steady and steep decline in usage.
So today we’re asking you: Have you made a call from a ‘digital kiosk’ phone box?
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I did not know that such a thing existed.
I don’t know what a digital phone box is!.
@Gerard Carey: They are like tracker mortgages…cost a fortune.
Why can’t people comment on the money diaries anymore? Just close the comments on everything if you’re going to pick and chose what people can voice their opinion on. Though I’m sure that would greatly reduce the numbers who bother to read articles on the journal. Oh whelp!
@S banter: *choose
@S banter:
Well this week featured a landlord, not exactly the most popular of people these days.
@S banter: they are constantly made up stories from fairyland. People saw right through the garbage.
Never even heard of them or knew such a thing existed.
What’s the story with Irish Companies supplying “building products” to the HAMAS terrorist.
@H Woo: What’s the story with a Company in Ireland taking down all information regarding their work with the IDF ?
@H Woo: where and when did you dream that one up?
I tried to use the one in Dundalk, but couldn’t get it to work with coin or card… I don’t know what I was doing wrong
@Lilly Nash: 100% that 2% is drug dealers.
I phoned E. T, he said to phone home.!
You should have another option choice should they be kept and yes the answer is they should
Hard to believe there’s anyone who doesn’t own a mobile phone!
@Brian Hunt: people in abusive relationships often have their phone taken from them
@Brian Hunt: People sometimes lose or have their phones stolen.
The phone is just a ploy to have key digital advertising which is the real product to make big money. Dirty digital advertising litter.
Advertising revenue for the various councils around the country.
100 years ago that phone was iphone 17 Pro now
very poor reporting..read the numbers versus the headline
I got a blowy in one the other night does that count as use?
I thought they were for shagging
These phone boxes are very handy to use
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