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NYC to replace public pay phones with 10,000 free gigabit WiFi pylons

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Will anyone say "big government" over-extend into people's live again? 

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Will anyone say "big government" over-extend into people's live again? 

They probably will monitor the internet usage but honestly it's not like they don't already have everything about our personal lives.

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While it is questionable how LinkNYC will be able to deliver gigabit speeds over Wi-Fi as most networks cannot sustain a gigabit connection on their own today. LinkNYC will be available throughout all five boroughs. I'm personally hoping seamless hoping from pylon to pylon will be supported. I'm especially excited for this mainly because I live in NYC but I love to see that we're finally beginning to move away from slow, low reception public Wi-Fi.

'Hoping' should be spelt hopping.

 

Anyway this actually sounds pretty awesome...if only this would come to the UK but they are able to keep the phone booths, especially around London :P

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The best part is that I will be paid with advertising and not public money. This is a no brainer. This is AWESOME! This should be done everywhere. It's a fantastic idea.

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oh my gosh the hackers are gonna be all over this. i can already see HAK5 freaking out about this.

 

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'Hoping' should be spelt hopping.

 

Anyway this actually sounds pretty awesome...if only this would come to the UK but they are able to keep the phone booths, especially around London :P

Thank you! Who knows one day it may come to you guys.

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OH NO WAYY @Tocsin_786 YES

think of all dat 4k pr0n on my phone that an LTE network is not capable of 

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Charging station?

What?

So you're going to stand next to one of those things for about 4 hours?

With alot of new phones coming with the turbo charge feature its just a couple of minutes.

 

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"You must construct additional pylons"

And i for one will welcome our new protoss overlords.

 

This is really cool though. And scary if breached or used to spy on people. 

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I am assuming they have done their homework and the millions of problems that immediately come to mind have been addressed. If it works as good as they say it will, this is awesome. However, as an Australian, I will just droop my head in sadness.

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So you're telling me that NYC is planning to construct additional pylons?

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You still have payphones?

you still use smoke signals? Lol

on topic , these things will get damaged,or stole. Then you get those who don't respect it and don't care and probably smear some dog feces on it.

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you still use smoke signals? Lol

on topic , these things will get damaged,or stole. Then you get those who don't respect it and don't care and probably smear some dog feces on it.

No AFAIK BT had them removed as soon as mobile phones/bricks became popular here in the UK so roughly 13yrs ago, there's still some in a few places for novelty reasons but that's it.
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wow awsome too bad they  couldnt do that here in th uk but they would quiclky get distroyed probly  would be more usefull then payphones here too least were i live lol

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What am I missing, how does taxpayer funded wifi bring in $500 million in 12 years? What do you have to pay for? Charging?

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What am I missing, how does taxpayer funded wifi bring in $500 million in 12 years? What do you have to pay for? Charging?

Nope the only way they're making money out of it is through ads on the pylons.

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I wonder if companies will be able to rent (or use) the fiber they're installing to give better service... Im in midtown and still only have a terrible copper connection with verizon

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I like how they're called Pylons :P

 

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What's the catch?

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What's the catch?

Frankly, I don't see one based on the business model they're using.

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