Payphones Are a Dying Breed, Soon to be Replaced With Wi-Fi Hotspots

By late next year, the first of the city’s aging payphone booths will be torn down and replaced with tall, thin, flat screen kiosks that will provide free public Wi-Fi to all five boroughs.
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Payphones Are a Dying Breed, Soon to be Replaced With Wi-Fi Hotspots
A concept photo of a WiFi kiosk in Brooklyn. Courtesy of LinkNYC
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Shannon Liao
Shannon Liao
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Shannon Liao is a native New Yorker who attended Vassar College and the Bronx High School of Science. She writes business and tech news and is an aspiring novelist.
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