BT booths hijacked for saucy £75 ‘moan’ calls

NEW high-tec phone booths can be used to call filthy

£75-a-time sex lines for free. And the crude conversations can be heard by anyone walking past.

The InLinkUK kiosks are designed to offer free wi-fi and UK mobile and landline calls.

Over 1,000 of them will replace traditional phone boxes over the next few years. They are expected to arrive in Manchester, Sheffield and Birmingham from October.

But the Daily Star Sunday has discovered they can be used to call some seedy sex lines.

And the new units have speakers which can blast out adult chat for anyone to hear, including children.

Our investigation found that five kiosks in the London Borough of Camden will broadcast sex calls at

100 decibels, about the same volume as a chainsaw.

After we dialled a number from a kiosk in Holborn, a husky eastern European voice could be heard saying: “We’ve been waiting for you. Phone sex is so awesome. “Let’s get down to it, until you literally explode with desire.” Another call to a different number was met with messages too rude for a family newspaper. Both calls could be heard by people walking past the kiosk near Great Ormond Street Children’s Hospital.

The revelations will be embarrassing for BT and other investors in the InLinkUK project. They finance the kiosks via advertising and it is estimated each one could bring in around £440 every day. In New York, where they were launched, web browsing was banned after reports of people viewing porn. Camden Council told us: “How the technology operates is a matter for BT and we have raised this with them.” InLink added: “Users cannot call premium rate numbers via an InLink and the free public wi-fi has content filters. Whilst we cannot control calls to UK mobile and landline numbers, all incidents of antisocial behaviour concerning InLinks will be directed to police.”