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NYC To Replace Most of Its Payphones With Free Gigabit WiFi In 2015

Submitted by: Hologram @ 08:12 PM | Monday, November 17, 2014 | (url: http://www.washin...)

The city announced Monday that it had selected a consortium of advertising, technology and telecom companies to deploy throughout the city thousands of modern-day pay phones that will offer 24-hour, free gigabit WiFi connections, free calls to anywhere in the U.S., touch-screen displays with direct access to city services, maps and directions for tourists, and charging stations (for the cellphones you'd rather use). The devices will also be capable of connecting people straight to emergency responders, and broadcasting alerts from the city during emergencies like Hurricane Sandy.

The whole system, city officials said, will constitute the largest free municipal WiFi network in the world.

All of it will be funded by what the providers say will be an astonishingly large revenue stream from sophisticated digital advertising picture different and constantly fine-tuned ads depending on the block that's projected to generate for the city $500 million over the next 12 years. Scott Goldsmith, the chief commercial officer at the advertising company Titan working on the contract, says the infrastructure will "revolutionize how advertising is delivered in the biggest media market in the world." Fifty percent of that revenue will go to the city.


11-17-14 - 08:21 PM
incoming big brother alert
11-17-14 - 08:21 PM
i feel like this should be a Goshin thread

cool anyway

this is the kind of shit we (the human race) need to be getting in place - the direct opposite to the big telecom companies and their greedy attempts at holding a monopoly

I HAVE A DREAM WHERE WE CAN ALL ACCESS @shitngfmsays DIRECTLY VIA COMPUTER CHIPS IMPLANTED IN OUR BRAINS WITH FREE WIFI EVERYWHERE
11-17-14 - 08:21 PM
blade runner

[IMG]http://mimg.ugo.com/201005/45045/video-phone-from-blade-runner.png[/IMG]


hope all nigs are gone
11-17-14 - 08:29 PM
There's no way this idea could backfire.
11-17-14 - 11:48 PM
I wonder how long before a homeless guy takes a dump or piss on it.
11-18-14 - 12:01 AM
I'd be willing to bet that the truth behind the idea is that they wanted to put those digital billboards all around NYC to rake in advertising $$$ and are using the excuse of "replacing pay phones" to get state/federal funding so that they get their billboard built cheaper/for free (the units needed networking/internet capabilities to be able to easily update the billboards anyway I'd assume, not hard to tack on limited VoIP). :weird:
11-18-14 - 01:05 AM
Twitter is going to fucking explode
11-18-14 - 05:51 AM
mcluhan is laffin @ us from the grave

fuck you mcluhan

also if it cant make videocalls it aint the future
11-18-14 - 07:09 AM
And put it right next to traffic.
11-18-14 - 07:17 AM
I am worried what massive Wi-Fi network will do to our electromagnetic radiation receptive genetic transcription pathways in the long run.

My guess is in 10 years cancer rates will continue to rise.
(need more coffee enemas).
11-18-14 - 07:53 AM
drink the water eat the salad avoid NY (wifi cancer jews) get the coffee enemas
11-18-14 - 08:13 AM
Originally posted by Denver  
I am worried what massive Wi-Fi network will do to our electromagnetic radiation receptive genetic transcription pathways in the long run.

My guess is in 10 years cancer rates will continue to rise.
(need more coffee enemas).


Your best bet is to invest in the health care market. I have a health care mutual fund, but the damn thing is so expensive when it comes to buying more stock. Right now it's about $250 a share...
11-18-14 - 08:40 AM
links is fucking gangster, wonder how they came up with the name
11-18-14 - 09:41 AM

Who gets all the data of everyone walking around?
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