BT and KCOM provide around 21000 public call boxes across the U K. 5 million calls were made from them last year, 150000 were emergencies, 25000 were to childline and 20k to samaritans. Calls have decreased from 800m minutes in 2002 to 7 million in 2020. Since BT launched its adopt a kiosk scheme over 6000 kiosks have been converted into defibrillators and libraries.