Wetherspoons has banned customers from playing music or videos out loud and taking calls on speakerphones.
The rule will apply to mobile phones, tablets and other devices at all 792 pubs owned by the chain, with new signs to be put up asking customers to switch devices to silent or to use earphones.
Wetherspoons already has a no-music policy in its pubs, with only the 44 braches that trade under the Lloyds name ever playing music even in the background.
The company has said noise from smartphones and ...
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