New York City replaces phone booths with interactive terminals

On New York's Third and Eighth Avenue, in the former location of phone booths, interactive terminals have lately started springing up like mushrooms after the rain under a project aimed to establish a free WiFi network that will grow to become the fastest and largest in the world once all the work is done.
These WiFi terminals are impossible not to notice as they are almost three meters tall, about 90 cm wide, rectangular in shape, and are called LinkNYC. Screens on both sides of these terminals provide a lot of useful information for tourists and citizens of the Big Apple.

Any cell phone or tablet can connect to the offered WiFi network at 20 times the regular speed in New York City. The network range is minimum and maximum 100 meters.

This project was announced in November 2015, and the City Bridge company has already installed 140 WiFi terminals since January 2016. Another 510 will be set up by the summer, while as many as 10,000 will be installed over the next 12 years.

This project, valued at USD 200 million, will be financed from the advertising of local advertisers on the screens of these terminals.

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