Who says that competition isn’t stirring up British Telecom, and doesn’t it mean that at last we might have something approaching an acceptable density of payphones in London as they have had for decades in New York? Seems that on Tuesday, Mercury Communications installed a bank of its new public kiosks at a previously phoneless location in London’s Victoria Station – only to see British Telecom engineers roll up to install competing phones alongside: the Daily Telegraph quotes the somewhat strained comment of one Merc – We found it amusing – they could have had phones there at any time this century.
