Tag: Wifi
According to city records, 35% of New York’s 8,894 public phones are broken. The Department of Information Technology and Telecommunications has stated that Verizon may be in part at fault for the mass failure, as the company is largely responsible for repair of public phones and hasn’t stepped up to fix them in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy. Despite their state […]
Several companies are looking to turn NYC’s outmoded phone booths into wifi hotspots. Google was one among 50 companies in attendance at an informational meeting earlier this year, according to the city’s Department of Information Technology and Telecommunications — along with IBM, Samsung and Cisco. But Google has already demonstrated these ambitions, as shown by their widely publicized launch of the biggest […]
