You've got fine dining restaurants really dialling back the finery, there are fewer tablecloths, less silver, less good crystal, more tumbler-style wineglasses.
The dialling code is optional when dialling within the area, with it being possible to dial between any two phones within the 029 code using only the eight-digit local number.
The push buttons just created the same loop disconnect signalling pulses as a dial telephone, which caused horrendous post-dialling delay and much knuckle rapping frustration.
