WRITTEN STATEMENTS OF OPINION TABLED ON 01/07/2008

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OPIN-2008- 0056 - BT Payphone Closure Plan

Raised By:

Kirsty Williams

Subscribers:

Trish Law 09/07/2008

Michael German 10/07/2008

Mick Bates 10/07/2008

Paul Davies 10/07/2008

Peter Black 10/07/2008

Mark Isherwood 11/07/2008

Val Lloyd 2008 11/07/2008

Joyce Watson 14/07/2008

Nerys Evans 16/07/2008

Mohammad Asghar 16/07/2008

Janet Ryder 16/07/2008

Helen Mary Jones 16/07/2008

Dai Lloyd 16/07/2008

Gareth Jones 16/07/2008

Chris Franks 16/07/2008

Bethan Jenkins 16/07/2008

Leanne Wood 16/07/2008

Alun Ffred Jones 16/07/2008

BT Payphone Closure Plan

This Assembly Notes:

- that mobile phone signals in rural areas can be unavailable and intermittent and that mobile phone batteries can loose their charge, and therefore there is still a role for phone boxes especially in emergency situations.

- that in both rural and urban areas many calls to Childline and domestic abuse helplines are made from payphones.

- BT has an obligation to provide a universal public payphone service.

Therefore in the interests of public safety this Assembly calls upon British Telecom to re-think its current plans to axe pay-phones across Wales