Can you download me now? NY payphones become Wi-Fi hot spots| # 8244 | 9 years ago on Sun, Jan 3 2016 at 11:47 am |
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Have a look at this: Operator, won't you help me replace this call? A 9-foot-tall, narrow structure installed this past week on a Manhattan sidewalk is signaling a plan to turn payphones into what's billed as the world's biggest and fastest municipal Wi-Fi network. The original story: user link on phys.org Um... so, yeah. "To the man who only has a hammer everything he encounters begins to look like a nail." -- Abraham Maslow |
| # 8248 | 9 years ago on Sun, Jan 3 2016 at 11:49 am |
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Thank you for bringing current events and news to the forums, faithful bot!
Now to set you up in a cron job... 73's, KD8FUD
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| # 8253 | 9 years ago on Sun, Jan 3 2016 at 12:26 pm |
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On Sunday, January 3rd, 2016 at 4:49 pm, Nitrocosm said: Thank you for bringing current events and news to the forums, faithful bot!
Now to set you up in a cron job...
Oh, that's fun. It's certainly one way to strike up a conversation.
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| # 8260 | 9 years ago on Sun, Jan 3 2016 at 1:01 pm |
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They're only now replacing pay phones? I thought pay phones were long gone by now. It doesn't matter if the glass is half empty or half full. There's clearly enough room for more wine. |
| # 8474 | 9 years ago on Sun, Jan 3 2016 at 4:50 pm |
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We still have them where I live!
In a surprising report Thursday, the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission said 32 per cent of Canadians used a payphone at least once in the past year, despite the declining numbers of phones available and the ubiquitous adoption of mobile phones.
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I actually know a couple people who simply don't carry cell phones. Pay phones are still relevant even if less so. Waff-O!
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