Ofcom - 1988

May Oftel published the payphone standard. This ended BT’s monopoly on the supply of payphones to customers and meant that occupiers of pubs, shops, etc could purchase and/or run their own payphones on their premises.

July The Director General referred the problems relating to multiline chatlines and other message services to the Monopolies and Mergers Commission – Oftel’s first reference.

Mercury launched its first public call box service at Waterloo Station.

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