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Verizon To Offer WiFi At Pay Phones

Posted by timothy on 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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  1. i can see it now.. by heff · · Score: 4, Funny

    I can imagine some guy loading up a copy of aim at one of these hot spots to recieve a message "if you log out of aim, I'll shoot you, do not tell anyone what I've told you" etc.

    they could even make a movie about it.. er

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  2. Says Lionel Hutz... by Linguica · · Score: 4, Funny

    Hey, you, get out of my office!

  3. Your connection is about to end... by product+byproduct · · Score: 4, Funny

    "...please insert another quarter to get one more megabyte"

  4. Can you ping me now? by corebreech · · Score: 5, Funny

    (sorry, couldn't resist)

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  5. Re:Would've First Posted but I read the article by AvantLegion · · Score: 4, Funny
    Who cares? Fresno's a crap hole.

    That's why Internet access is so important. Like, duh.

  6. Re:A Great Idea by Bastian · · Score: 4, Funny

    No, because thankfully Australia has superior "get a life" technology, which renders wi-fi at telephone booths hopelessly obsolete.

  7. Good Deal! by SN74S181 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Now the pawnshops near the darker, more secluded phone booths will have better, cheaper prices on handheld devices and laptops.