Verizon Pulling Plug on Free Wi-Fi in NYC

Cashen writes "'Verizon Communications Inc. is turning off the free wireless Internet access it beams from New York City telephone booths for DSL subscribers who use laptops away from home or the office.' Full article here. Is it just a coincidence Verizon is expanding its EV-DO in New York at the same time? Guess we have to pay to play now ... The real question is, when is EV-DO coming to Michigan?"

Comments

Confused ....

[quick2think]

How do you pull the plug on wireless?

When am I going to get free wireless?

[CypherXero]

"The real question is, when is EV-DO coming to michigan?"

I live in Alabama, you insensitive clod!

Re:When am I going to get free wireless?

[dawnread]

I live in Alabama, you insensitive clod!

And you have the internet now? ;)

Re:so people will just hack the corperate/Home AP.

[Rosco P. Coltrane]

Get yourself down Starbucks - coffee and WiFi!

Well, at least WiFi...

The real question?

[Anonymous Coward]

The real question is, when is EV-DO coming to michigan?

Really? Since when would "stuff that matters" make it the "real question" when, or even if, an acronym for something that is for most both quite unimportant and uninteresting, reaches <insert place of choice>?

That question instead got me thinking of a mouse running in its wheel, and perhaps it was thinking "I wonder when I reach the end".

Re:Free Community WiFi

[Chess_the_cat]

This will create a new, distributed, and more redundant internet infrastructor and make the provider model obsolete.

Infrastructor was my favorite Transformer. He ruled.

Re:EVDO not that great, but REV A on the way

[iminplaya]

I typically do a lot of beta for verizon...

Doesn't everybody?