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# NYC Keeps Residents Connected with Wi-Fi Pods
- URL: https://www.protein.xyz/nyc-keeps-residents-connected-with-wi-fi-pods/
- Published: 2016-01-06T00:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2016-06-16T12:45:42.000Z
- Description: NYC paves the way in hyper-connectivity by replacing its outdated phone booths with Wi-Fi pods.
- Author: George Webster
- Tags: Seeds, Technology, #protein, #Import 2024-06-11 13:25

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NYC paves the way in hyper-connectivity by replacing its outdated phone booths with Wi-Fi pods.

Today NYC unveils an ingenious strategy to bridge the sizable digital divide New York City faces, thanks to a private group of experts in tech and connectivity, CityBridge.

Cities like Chattanooga, Tennessee, pioneered community-centred connectivity through their gigabit-per-second broadband speeds, and now New York have taken heed. Utilising private investment and digital advertising, LinkNYC updates the outdated telephone booths with everything necessary to keep ourselves connected.  

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The new individual pods replace pay phones and instead offer super-fast, free Wi-Fi, an in-built tablet for web-browsing and mapping, a free-call making application, and a power-only USB port for charging. Intuitively designed, a lack of horizontal flat surfaces prevents a pile-up of litter.

As well as a positive social impact, the project represents a bottom-up response to the desires of urban citizens who are already online, for an environment that facilitates their increasingly hyper-connected lives. The implications for the future of enhanced public connectivity are very exciting, so watch this space...

The first two Wi-Fi stations on Manhattan’s Third Avenue in the East Village will be unveiled today and by the middle of January.