Tag: Payphones
We’ve been hearing rumblings about a plan to turn NYC pay phones into free, public Wi-Fi hotspot for years now, but not much has materialized. According to the de Blasio administration, however, that could change soon. Yesterday, the city issued a request for proposals to transform up to 10,000 of the mostly unused telephones into […]
Just when we thought the payphone was a silly, useless antiquity, the City of New York has introduced a sleek new communication game-changer. New Yorkers, meet NYFi, the winner of the Reinvent Payphone Design Challenge. Chosen by Facebook voters from a number of space-agey design proposals, the NYFi is not just a public phone, but […]
