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Verizon To Offer WiFi At Pay Phones
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.
The Wi-Fi at payphones has potential, plus they just lowered the Verizon DSL price while increasing the download speed, AND they're standing up for their customers privacy rights. Now, if they'd just unblock port 80...
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I'd imagine they'd just use a "captive firewall" application, like some hotels use for their in-room DSL access. In other words, you fire up your web browser, and all traffic goes to their box which asks you for a credit card payment before opening you up to the world. IOW, there's no need for some quickly-hacked Visual Basic program to do this.
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Quarter for a megabyte? Not bad considering AT&T Wireless is raping people with 1-3 cents per kilobyte!!! God damn that is some expensive wireless access.