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New Zealand Converting Old Phone Booths Into National WiFi Network

Posted by samzenpus on from the superman-approved dept.

An anonymous reader writes "What do you do with old public phone boxes hardly anyone uses? Convert them into a national network of WiFi hotspots is the answer in New Zealand. While others have converted their old phone booths into libraries, toilets, showers and even smoking booths, in New Zealand 700 hotspots will be live by 7 October with a target of 2000 by the middle of 2014. 1Gb of data will be free to customers of the incumbent operator, others have to pay for monthly access."

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  1. In the Soviet USA... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Interesting

    They pulled the doors off after a SCOTUS ruling showed that they were a private space with a legal expectation of privacy. Once the doors came off the communications were considered public and OK to record.
    I do still miss the less trackable days of pagers and phone booths from a tinfoil hat point of view though.