Google will turn payphones in Wi-Fi hotspots

Google jointly with other large scientific and technical companies are going to be made payphones new York free Wi-Fi.

The idea was proposed in response to the request of the Department of information technologies and telecommunications of the metropolis on how to deal with the city payphones, which are currently not applied.

The decision on reconstruction of pay-phones was made due to their low use. Because really, why to apply a social phone, when almost everyone has a cell. At the moment in a major city about 7300 payphones, moderately distributed in metropolis. In the projects, all of them will join the same network and the inhabitants of new York will always be able to remain in the status of the Internet, moving from the 1st to another payphone.

However, the booths relationship will remain operational in normal mode public telephone. The Internet promises to make free, for calls as before you will need to pay. Payphones among other things will be used as a marketing media - through advertising the project and should be repaid, informs Agency Bloomberg.

Note that similar technology are planning to start in Russia. So, Melbourne Herald sun wrote that the city payphones will access points Wi-Fi. With the help of this device it will be possible to pay Parking and replenish the transport map. According to the statement of the adept of information technologies Department of Moscow Elena Novikova procedure of re-equipment phones will begin in the capital in the summer of 2014.

And yet it was reported that the number of payphones will be reduced at least twice and will amount to approximately one and a half all over Moscow. Despite the unpopularity of pay phones, phones can be seen on the streets of the capital and even in the Central stations of the Moscow metro. In case of success of the project of the capital's residents and guests of the metropolis with the updated payphone will be able to enter into the Network Internet, to pay for the services of interconnection, communal, private Parking, to make cash on the transport map.

2 years ago, the Ministry of interconnection and global communications folded the program on installation of public telephones in remote districts of the state. The work of the apparatus has been too expensive - it spent almost 80 billion rubles.

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