Inspection covers in Penn, Wolverhampton
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Inspection covers in Penn, Wolverhampton
Image: © Roger Kidd Taken: 12 Jun 2022
These landline telephone equipment inspection covers are in the pavement by 76 Mount Road in Penn. The Post Office, which had operated telephone services since 1912, was separated from the industry in 1981, being replaced by British Telecommunications (later British Telecom, or just BT), which was then privatised in 1984. Now that mobile phone usage is so widely preferred and cheap, the whole concept of landlines is approaching its end. It is planned that the technology will be switched off in 2025, the network being transferred to a kind of digital internet based hybrid.
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Image Location
Latitude
52.560484
Longitude
-2.146287