The municipality has installed the first in Manhattan, which can charge his phone, to access information about the city and dial pre-registered numbers. The project was initiated by former Mayor Michael Bloomberg in 2012.
The late New York telephones rang. The city of New York began to replace its telephone booths with wireless terminals, according to the will of the former mayor, Michael Bloomberg, who launched the project in 2012. LinkNYC The first terminal was installed last Monday in the corner of Third Avenue and 15th Street in Gramercy Park neighborhood in Manhattan.
For the time being inactive, soon it will work round the clock to provide New Yorkers Internet access within a radius of thirty meters. The people will also see information about the city thanks to the two screens available, recharge their laptop or contact emergency numbers and municipal services.
500 other terminals should be deployed by next summer and ultimately, more than 7,500 booths to be processed. Advertising media, the “new generation” cabins could earn $ 500 million a year to the municipality, according to the specialized website The Verge information. Well above the 17 million expected at the start.
If the project is successful, it could well be emulated in other megacities, also affected by the disaffection of the inhabitants for pay telephones. London has launched a similar project in 2014, transforming its famous red boxes “SolarBox” green, powered by solar energy, which allow Londoners to recharge their electronic devices (phones, computers, tablets …).
In France, their disappearance is already scheduled for 2017, thanks to an amendment to the law that allows Macron dismantling. In Prague, two young Czechs have launched a project to rehabilitate telephone booths … turning them into urban libraries. A second unexpected life.
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