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December 13, 2004

A possible snag in Verizon's Wi-Fi experiment

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Posted by Dominic Basulto

Anyone remember when Verizon promised to convert a thousand pay phone kiosks across the city into a sophisticated Wi-Fi network? Then, last November, Verizon downsized that plan to 500 kiosks. Well, even that scaled-down Wi-Fi plan could be put on hold.

According to the New York Daily News, the city agency that regulates pay phones has recently banned ads on all new kiosks in Manhattan below 96th Street. The loss of $25 million in annual advertising revenue could be the death knell for city pay phone operators; moreover, pay phone operators are already threatening that the move could "remove incentives to add new services like Internet phones and Wi-Fi."

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