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Originally Posted by TonyDuell
Another (unrelated to fridges, but releated to the Rabbit telephone) failure was Zonephone. From what I remember it was even more limited than Rabbit. If you had the handset you could make an outgoing call if you were close to a base station (installed in public bulidings, etc). But there was no home base station availble so you couldn't use it as a cordless telephone at home. I have one of the base stations for it (obviously I have never powered it up, I have no idea what frequency it would transmit on, or what uses that now), it's quite complex inside.
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You can still see the odd Rabbit sign if you know where to look , I've seen a couple recently myself.
I also remember the Mercury phoneboxes in our city too, in fact I think that if you look on the pavement you can still see the metal access covers with Mercury stamped on them, although i might be wrong.