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The Multimedia Payphone that will benefit Eurovision

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Good news for everyone planning a trip to Eurovision in 2012 and hoping to stay connected, Baku is getting an extra 100 media telephones around the new stadium. Yaay! “Today, Baku is numbering 1,200 payphones, of which 200 ones are new universal card and GSM payphones and remaining in 1,080 ones are old token payphones. On the threshold of Eurovision we plan to install 50-100 new multimedia payphones in certain parts of the city, close to the venue of the contest,” he emphasized. Yaay (I think).

What if the winners of Eurovision don’t host the contest?

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It’s been over twenty years since a winning country hasn’t went on to host the Eurovision Song Contest the following year, and like many of the new entrants to the Contest, Azerbaijan really want to use Eurovision as a platform for their country. But, and this is a big but, there is a tiny, non-zero chance that we might not be heading to Baku. So let’s have a bit of fun and ask “what if… it’s not Baku?”

Will it be Baku? Will it be Rome? We’ll just have to wait and see.

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But before the big decision, Paul Jordan has taken a look at why taking Eurovision in 2012 to Baku has been causing so many headaches: Immediately following Azerbaijan’s victory there was speculation concerning the hosting of Eurovision in Baku in 2012. Indeed it was interesting to note at the press conference after the live final that the response was somewhat muted. The EBUs’ Jon Ola Sand stated that he “invited Azerbaijan to begin discussions” on hosting. Compared to the previous year, where there were discourses of “see you in Germany”, this marked a more cautious approach to Eurovision planning. It