Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Jolly Roger Newsgroups: misc.phone.mobile.iphone,comp.mobile.ipad,comp.sys.mac.comm,comp.sys.mac.system Subject: Re: New York City Finds New Use For Old Pay Phones: Wi-Fi Hotspots Date: 13 Nov 2020 23:32:53 GMT Organization: People for the Ethical Treatment of Pirates Lines: 36 Message-ID: References: <0001HW.255F32100092126D70000CA1638F@news.giganews.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net 3pL/NjXlpMIUjgg0dWR6vgXP1qsKWpLNpsWp4s1OaKjOw1V+z/ Cancel-Lock: sha1:GtQOxg4BihICdK3MrujDN/UVJm0= X-No-Archive: Yes MMail-Copies-To: nobody X-Face: _.g>n!a$f3/H3jA]>9pN55*5<`}Tud57>1Y%b|b-Y~()~\t,LZ3e up1/bO{=-) User-Agent: slrn/1.0.3 (Darwin) Xref: csiph.com misc.phone.mobile.iphone:137969 comp.mobile.ipad:71644 comp.sys.mac.comm:3170 comp.sys.mac.system:134838 On 2020-11-13, Savageduck wrote: > On Nov 13, 2020, John McWilliams wrote > (in article ): >> On 11/13/20 PDT 1:12 PM, Jolly Roger wrote: >>> On 2020-11-13, RocketSurgeon<48forward@gmail.com> wrote: >>>> On 7/12/12 9:30 AM, Michelle Steiner wrote: >>>> > As the last sentence says, other cities take note. >>>>> >>>>> -- Michelle >>>>> >>>>> http://www.pcworld.com/article/259119/new_york_city_finds_new_use_for_old_pay_phones_wifi_hotspots.html >>>> << Snipped bits out >> >>>> >>>> Here's an eight year old thread that raises an interesting >>>> question; does anyone have a followup? >>> >>> Here you go: >> >> Thank you, but not interested in links. Just folks' experience. > > “LinkNYC” is the actual name of the communications network under > discussion. That is a legitimate URL and the site is worth a few > minutes of exploration. It's the very first hit when you do a web search for "new york city phone booths WiFi". A good netizen always searches for the solution on their own before asking for others for help. But since they both apparently are here in this thread primarily to troll, we can't expect that much of them. -- E-mail sent to this address may be devoured by my ravenous SPAM filter. I often ignore posts from Google. Use a real news client instead. JR