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August 24, 2016

Free Wi-Fi kiosks in NYC popular with homeless

  • CityBridge, a consortium of tech companies, is replacing pay phone booths with Wi-Fi kiosks, and wants at least 7,500 throughout the city.
    • By KAREN MATTHEWS
    Associated Press

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    NEW YORK — An ambitious effort to replace obsolete New York City pay phones with Wi-Fi kiosks that offer free web surfing and phone calls has been a hit with panhandlers and the homeless, the least wired people in the city.


     
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