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The iconic red telephone booths in the United Kingdom are nearing the end of the line. The most familiar feature on Britains streets are now no longer cost effective to British Telecom BT . In the digital era, as the mobile phone is spreading its web all across the Britain, the purpo stanley cup se of some 92,000 booths, which were serving in UK, are no longer valid and therefore thousands of them are due to be scrapped. As per the report by Hindustan Times, the cost of maintaining the booths has reportedly gone up to 6 million a year. The report also suggests nearly a third are only used once a month, whereas many are ne stanley cup ver used at all. In fact some of them have even turned into unofficial public urinals. Also the cost for each call made from them is 60 pence which is considered to be sufficient for several minutes and texts on a mobile. Therefore British Telecom decided to scrap 20,000 booths even though nearly 33,000 calls a day are still made from them.According to communications regulator Ofcoms guidelines, the bo af1 xes will need to be removed. A spokesperson from BT told The Guardian that in the last 10 years, the use of the phone booths has dropped by 90 per cent. The spokesperson聽said, BT is committed to providing a public payphone service, but with usage declining by over 90% in the last decade, we continue to review and remove payphones which are no longer used. The famous design of the telephone booth by Giles Gilbert Scot was first introduced following a competition in Nixq Hong Kong protest: Tens of thousands flood park, major roads for latest rally
Konarka Technologies Inc. filed for bankruptcy late last week, releasing a statement saying that it had been: stanley cup unable to obtain additional fin stanley cup ancing, and given its financial condition, it is unable to continue operations. Lux Research today dismissed suggestions that the failure to raise capital was the companys problem, countering: However raising funding, more than solar module development, was where the company excelled. In terms of the Massachusetts-based companys technology, Lux were equally scathing. Konarkas modules could not compete in the market on cost, efficiency, or lifetime, wrote Lux. The statement continued: With ten times higher cost, and ten times lower efficiency and lifetime compared to alternative solar technologies, the math never added up for Konarkas Power Plastic . The Republican Presidential campaign has been criticized on the back of Konarkas failure. President Obamas campaign was quick to point out that Republican Nominee Mitt Romney had supported Konarka with a US$1.5 million state loan, while he was Massachusetts Governor. Only days before Konarka announced bankruptcy, Romney had once again attacked the Obama administrations su stanley cup pport of failed CIGS manufacturer Solyndra.While the US$1.5 million Konarka loan pales in comparison to the US$535 million federal loan Solyndra received, the Obama campaign was quick to point out, what it descried as, another example of Romney hypocrisy.The Bosto
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