Phone boxes set to disappear
Telecom company KPN no longer has to maintain one telephone box for every 5,000 inhabitants, junior economic affairs minister Frank Heemskerk announced on Friday.
The legal requirement is expensive and unnecessary now most people have mobile phones, Heemskerk said.
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