NYC Wi-Fi kiosks that were designed to replace phone booths and allow users to consult maps, maybe check the weather or charge their phones has backfired.
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Municipal wi-fi news: Buffalo building free public wifi network for its downtown corridor
Buffalo, New York state’s second largest city and America’s 69th largest, is joining the parade of progress by building a public wi-fi network that will be available free to residents and visitors to its downtown corridor.
Read the full article →Libraries no longer just for books: Google and NYC libraries let patrons borrow portable wireless internet hubs
The program will offer about 10,000 Wi-Fi units through branches of the New York Public Library, the Queens Library and the Brooklyn Public Library, funded partly with a $1 million donation from Google Inc.
Read the full article →Trouble in the Big Apple: Will New York City’s free wifi kiosks over-promise and under-deliver?
Uh-oh. Just when it looked like New York City was going to build the nation’s fastest, most extensive free municipal wifi network, reality is starting to rear its ugly head.
Read the full article →Out in New York City: All phone booths. In in New York City: 10,000 high tech wifi street kiosks.
The New York City pay phone is to be replaced with ‘LinkNYC,’ a network of devices that will provide free wireless Internet throughout much of the five boroughs. But is it really a good idea?
Read the full article →New York politicians flex muscles, demand free wifi in public housing, shelters and parks
Big Apple political leaders and activists, including public advocate Letitia James, want Comcast to provide free broadband in the city’s public housing projects and to continue Internet Essentials.
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