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NYC To Replace Most of Its Payphones With Free Gigabit WiFi In 2015
mrspoonsi writes: New York City announced today it has picked the companies that will deliver the technology behind its deployment of free, gigabit Wi-Fi to pay phone stations throughout the city. The LinkNYC stations will also include charging outlets, touchscreen displays that interface with city services, and free U.S. calling. It will be funded through advertising. Construction will begin in 2015, and officials expect up to 10,000 stations to be installed before it's done.
NYC is taking away their data overages money
I haven't seen a payphone on the streets in years.
The last time I saw one was in Penn Station
What exactly is gigabit wifi and what devices support it?
Only the State obtains its revenue by coercion. - Murray Rothbard
please paint at least one like a Dr. Who Police Call Box
-badford
They're doing it to spy on people.
quiquid id est, timeo puellas et oscula dantes.
Can be a lot cheaper than other ways of spying; Associate a person with wireless MAC's or shudder their Facebook account and you've got NSA class intel, and better location data.
Whoever runs that network will be able to track pretty much anyone who has wifi turned on on their phone throughout their coverage area. Here's hoping they have strong policies against or transmitting identifying data from their terminals or storing such data on those termianls past the minimum time possible.
I can torrent movies and porn at Gigabit speeds for free and completely anonymously!
I'm willing to bet that "throughout the city" as usual means "Manhattan south of 125th street. Brooklyn, Queens, The Bronx and Staten Island don't even have subway stops wired yet.
This, among so many other things, is why net neutrality is so important.
You cannot compete to survive in this world anymore without a computer that is connected to the internet.
So you have enough money for a wifi enabled device likely a cellphone at least, congrats here's your free wifi. If you happen to be somewhere without a cellphone or say a tourist who's phone doesn't work there sorry no handy phones around anymore sure hope you know enough to get skype or something on that bad boy should you need to call anyone. Tech is cool but there is still a lot of people out there that are clueless. My parents for example can't even figure out how to shutoff a computer or figure out what button to push to start a cellphone call. Their done because all the tech they are used to is being replaced with the assumption that you'll drop $500 a year on a shiny gadget rather than have a few quarters in your pocket when traveling.
http://www.link.nyc/
Key Features
24/7 free Internet access with up to gigabit speeds
Integrated lighting
Digital displays to provide insight-driven and intelligently programmed advertising & public service announcements
Android tablet with touch screen display, directional speaker & microphone
Tactile keypad & Braille lettering, dedicated 911 button, USB charger, headphone jack
Iconic and durable aluminum construction designed and built in NYC
Sleek design and decreased footprint to restore sidewalk space and improve visual continuity
Mit der Dummheit kämpfen Götter selbst vergebens
Everybody in Cleveland has one.
The Newyork Sidewalk Association :)
Is that too much to ask? Can anyone name another metropolis that doesn't have public toilets?
I don't know, im getting really tired of paying bloated prices because every business uses product makers to fund everything under the sun. I wonder how much money we would save if there product makers cut there advertising budgets by 3/4. Plus, why would I need to use Wi-Fi when I have coverage that I already pay for? What % of a cars price is for the advertising budgets?
Jack of all trades,master of none
Why does corporate pimping continue to be the dominant paradigm for creating private funding revenue for free public services? And why does it continue to work so effectively? I am convinced that nearly anything that is advertised to me is shit I don't need, for prices too high, with money I don't have. Perhaps that's the catch: If you have the money you'll happily spend it on overpriced crap you don't need, because with wads of cash you don't need anything. Including Free Wi-Fi. Ah the conundrum of consumerism...
It is New York City. So, the very first thing you'll hear is "for Mandarin, press 1. For Spanish, press 2. For Hindi, press 3. For Arabic, press 4.."
By the time the access point knows your language preference and has assaulted your senses with a stream of commercials with Neurolinguistic Programming trying to convince you to buy a double lard burger, you probably forget why you called in the first place.
Have gnu, will travel.
Payphones were the only option to get out for MANY people. No internet, no power, no home phone service. Yet, payphones still worked fine.
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NYC has a city income tax. They have property taxes. I think it is one of the most heavily taxed places in the United States.
This. Is. Not. Free.
Mostly Manhattan, with a few in the outer boroughs? Mostly not in poor neighborhoods, where they may not have been as widespread, and they got taken out earliest because of the War On Politically Incorrect Drugs?
Bill Stewart
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YES, THEY WILL LOG EVERY SINGLE PHONE THAT PINGS THE WIFI, CITY WIDE Fuck New York. It's so over. One you have a shit for brains tourist like Taylor $wift singing for your city your are FUCKED
Zekebaker@gmail.com Or just use Freephoneline. The point is to break the monopolies. I do review Chinese phones and can offer an excellent deal on great hardware if you purchase through me. And yes it will work forever with no bill, been using it for about 11 years now.
Yea, great, another major city gets yet another choice for broadband (although probably monitored, the fact is that it's another choice) while those of us who live in semi-rural America are stuck paying exorbitant prices ($65/mo) to Time Warner for just 50x5 (the fastest they offer in my area) or even more for 4G or satellite. I called them the other day to inquire about 300Mb service which is listed on their web page and was told flat out that if I lived in an area that offered it, I would be automatically upgraded at my current cost, however they won't offer it in my area any time soon as they have no competition.
Get Verizon to just give them the pay phone booths? If we had such a thing in Providence I could get out public WiFi net up and running - because many phone booths had power too. Now you're lucky if you can find a pay phone at all in this city.
The New York times has a photo of a pay phone booth. http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/18/nyregion/pay-phones-in-new-york-city-will-become-free-wi-fi-hot-spots.html?_r=0
I have never heard of a pay phone before until I saw this article on Slashdot. I have never seen the pay phones or that kind of booth before.
Sandy nods approvingly. Let's forget things like levys and landlines. Sleep my pretties. Sleep.
Cell phones will be replaced with WiFi.
This will be the real test.
Modify or examine packets?
Block ports?
Throttle based on destination, content, protocol or port?
Gather metadata or otherwise log?
Provide data to 3-letter agencies without warrant?
Prove anything by multiplying Huge Number times Tiny Number
Reminds me of free wifi by Google in Mountain View, slower than dialup. But I occasionally use it to test Ubiquiti long haul products.
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Now there'll be enough to go around slowly cooking the population as if our contaminated water supply wasn't enough.......robot chicken