WI-FI Sparks New Life In New York Pay Phones -- Verizon offers free wireless Internet access to DSL customers

Have you used a pay phone lately? Probably not. Thanks to the proliferation of cellular phone service, phone booths have rapidly gone the way of the dodo. But Verizon Communications breathed new life into the old boxes last week with a strategy to reconfigure them into wireless Internet hot spots. I...

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Published in:InformationWeek (Manhasset, N.Y.) N.Y.), 2003-05 (940), p.28-28
Main Author: Ewalt, David M
Format: Magazinearticle
Language:English
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Summary:Have you used a pay phone lately? Probably not. Thanks to the proliferation of cellular phone service, phone booths have rapidly gone the way of the dodo. But Verizon Communications breathed new life into the old boxes last week with a strategy to reconfigure them into wireless Internet hot spots. InCode is working with Bell Canada on a trial program installing pay-phone hot spots in airports and hotels, an effort that's convinced Donovan the system will take off. "This is the way Wi-Fi will spread," he says. "Not because it's the only way it's done, but because it's the shot heard round the world."
ISSN:8750-6874