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| The project, LinkNYC, was the winning entry in the Reinvent Payphones Design Challenge. Photo: Richard Drew/ AP |
Nate Berg in Los Angeles, The Guardian, 29 June 2015
Google’s urban innovation startup Sidewalk Labs has made its first big investment – turning NYC’s disused phone booths into 10,000 Wi-Fi hotspots
The goal of free, high-speed internet for everyone in New York City has jumped much closer: Sidewalk Labs, the new Google-backed startup that was created last month to improve city life though technological innovation, has announced it is investing in a project to turn the city’s payphones into Wi-Fi hotspots.
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