Verizon To Offer WiFi At Pay Phones

Posted by timothy on Sunday May 11, 2003 @01:42PM from the can-you-ping-me-now dept.

Makarand writes "Verizon has ambitious plans to catapult pay phones from the pre-cellular era to the WiFi era by creating hotspots around pay phones using an extension of their DSL service. The current plan is to upgrade 200,000 pay phones in the New York metro area to provide a WiFi service. Although major metros are spotted with hotspots, finding them is usually a big problem. Verizon thinks that specially marked WiFi enabled pay phones would solve the problem of locating the hotspots." Sounds similar to Bell Canada's move to do the same.

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Phone booth hogging by elid · 2003-05-11 14:33 · Score: 0, Flamebait

I could just imagine one guy stuffed in a phone booth with his laptop with a line of people forming down the street. "Hey, will you hurry up in there!?" "Just a sec - I'm busy downloading the latest fake Madonna MP3 from Kazaa in here!"