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| 05.05.2025 | Intersection Launches LinkNYC Ad Portal for Local Businesses | Intersection’s new and innovative Self-Service Ad Portal makes advertising on LinkNYC more attainable for businesses with marketing budgets small or large
The launch of the portal brings upgrades to LinkNYC’s popular LinkLocal free advertis... |
| 09.03.2025 | Business | Pioneering smart tech and sustainability: These are America’s top smart cities of 2025 | 1. San Francisco – 70 points
San Francisco tops the list as the smartest city in 2025, with a total smart city score of 70. As the epicenter of Silicon Valley, San Francisco attracts top-tier talent and fosters innovation, boasting 39.72 te... |
| 07.08.2023 | ACLU Says NYC’s Half-Baked WiFi Kiosks Still A Privacy Mess | In 2014, NYC officials decided to replace the city’s dated pay phones with “information kiosks” providing free public Wi-Fi, phone calls, device charging, and a tablet for access to city services, maps and directions. The kiosks were to be ... |
| 22.11.2022 | NYC’s New 5G LinkNYC Towers Don’t Actually Fix The Digital Divide. And They’re Ugly As Hell. | Back in 2014, New York City officials decided they would replace the city’s dated pay phones with “information kiosks” providing free public Wi-Fi, phone calls, device charging, and a tablet for access to city services, maps and directions.... |
| 17.11.2022 | BAI Communications closes acquisition of ZenFi Networks, further accelerating growth in the US market | NEW YORK, Nov. 17, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- BAI Communications (BAI) today announced the close of its acquisition of ZenFi Networks (ZenFi), a US East coast-based provider of digital infrastructure solutions and innovator in small cell deployme... |
| 31.08.2022 | FTC Lawsuit Spotlights A Major Privacy Risk: Your Phone Reveals More About You Than You Think | Lady with a smartphone. Pexels |
| 28.03.2019 | LinkNYC’s 6 million users have used 8.6 terabytes of data | What better way to replace New York City’s thousands of aging pay phones than with 9.5-foot-tall kiosks outfitted with 55-inch HD displays, gigabit internet, and Android tablets preloaded with informational apps? So went the thinking back i... |
| 28.03.2019 | LinkNYC’s 6 million users have used 8.6 terabytes of data | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
What better way to replace New York City’s thousands of aging pay phones than with 9.5-foot-tall kiosks outfitted with 55-inch HD displ... |
| 01.12.2018 | The economics and trade-offs of ad-funded smart city tech | In order to have innovative smart city applications, cities first need to build out the connected infrastructure, which can be a costly, lengthy and politicized process. Third-parties are helping build infrastructure at no cost to cities by... |
| 29.09.2018 | LinkNYC’s 5 million users make 500,000 phone calls each month | In 2014, in a bid to replace the more than 11,000 aging payphones scattered across New York City’s pedestrian walkways with more functional fixtures, Mayor Bill de Blasio launched a competition — the Reinvent Payphones initiative — calling ... |
| 07.11.2017 | Intersection raises $150 million for the global expansion of its free Wi-Fi | As it looks to expand the global footprint of its internet-enabled digital advertising and informational kiosks, New York-based Intersection has raised $150 million in a new round of financing.
The company has installed hundreds of its obel... |
| 04.05.2017 | How the LinkNYC Network Heralds the Rise of Smart Cities | Smart cities — the term for modern-day cities powered by cutting-edge IoT tech — are starting to emerge. Kansas City’s recent award-winning “smart city” initiative gathers data from its downtown streetcar line in order to help businesses ad... |
| 25.02.2017 | If Trump wants an easy policy win, he should focus on funding smart cities | Michael Provenzano Contributor
Michael Provenzano is CEO and co-founder of Vistar Media.
Two decades after social scientists coined the term “smart cities,” the dream of tech-enabled communities has yet to come to fruition. But Donald Trump... |
| 24.02.2017 | Smart cities must be people-centered, equitable cities | Brooks Rainwater Contributor
Brooks Rainwater is the director of the Center for City Solutions and Applied Research at the National League of Cities.
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| 04.11.2016 | Are smart cities just a utopian fantasy? | Tyler Edell Contributor
Tyler Edell is a technical marketing manager at Oppkey, a developer relations company in San Francisco. He holds degrees in writing and literature from Emerson College and San Francisco State University.
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| 25.10.2016 | LinkNYC’s free WiFi and phone kiosks hit London as LinkUK, in partnership with BT | London’s iconic red phone boxes may be mostly gone from the streets of the city — and many of those that remain are no longer home to phones (one in my hood is now a book exchange, another is a dingy mess) — but the promise of offering comm... |
| 16.09.2016 | NYC Kills Internet Browsing At Free WiFi Kiosks After The City's Homeless Actually Use It | Earlier this year, New York City undertook one of the biggest free city WiFi efforts ever conceived. Under the plan, an outfit by the name of LinkNYC is slated to install some 7,500 WiFi kiosks scattered around the five boroughs that will p... |
| 14.09.2016 | After “lewd acts,” NYC’s free Internet kiosks disable Web browsing | Enlarge / A LinkNYC user making a phone call on the kiosk's tablet.
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| 12.08.2016 | Link NYC kiosks provide public Wi-Fi you’ll actually want to use | reader comments 57 with 42 posters participating
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If you wander around the streets of New York City, you'll eventually run into rectangul... |
| 20.02.2016 | Video Of The Week: LinkNYC | The LinkNYC project has been under development in NYC for years, going back to the Bloomberg administration. At its core, LinkNYC is an upgrade to the public telephone system in NYC. Since all of these phone booths are “wired”, the city’s p... |
| 19.02.2016 | LinkNYC's New Free Network Is Blazing Fast. But At What Cost to Privacy? | New York City launched a massive new public communications network on Thursday that backers say will serve as a model for next-generation urban tech infrastructure. But some consumer advocates warn the project could pose a threat to privacy... |
| 18.02.2016 | NYC Continues Its Great Phonebooth Transformation As First Tablets Hit Its Gigabit Wi-Fi Spots | The plan to turn unused NYC phonebooths into free digital hubs for local neighborhoods continues as Mayor Bill DeBlasio announced the second phase of the city’s LinkNYC program — with the unveiling of new, slightly generic tablets at the ci... |
| 18.02.2016 | Hands-on with LinkNYC: the free Wi-Fi hub and tablet that killed the payphone | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
In New York City, the payphone is out and, slowly but surely, the Link is in.
Link is the city’s name for its new kiosks — tall, narrow... |
| 18.02.2016 | Hands-on with LinkNYC: the free Wi-Fi hub and tablet that killed the payphone | In New York City, the payphone is out and, slowly but surely, the Link is in.
Link is the city’s name for its new kiosks — tall, narrow structures with slick ads on either side, a small tablet in the center, and a beta warning slapped acros... |
| 26.01.2016 | Is free public Wi-Fi really worth it? | - |
| 28.12.2015 | LinkNYC Replacing Pay Phones With High-Speed Wi-Fi And Charging Stations In New York City | Mark Lelinwalla, Tech Times 28 December 2015, 04:12 pm
New York City residents know that whether public pay phones are seldom used or out of order, that they're severely outdated.
That's precisely why LinkNYC station hubs, offering free hig... |
| 04.05.2015 | Mayor De Blasio Makes A $70M Commitment Toward Universal Broadband In New York City | In what is one of the most prominent financial commitments that an American city government has made toward universal broadband, the De Blasio administration is committing $70 million to bring affordable high-speed Internet to city resident... |
| 22.04.2015 | Throttle the price, rev the speed: Mayor de Blasio wants ideas on broadband | The Mayor’s Office for Tech and Innovation wants ideas for expanding access to broadband. The city is both looking for demonstration projects and policy suggestions. More details in the link, but, in short, if you have ideas for ways in whi... |
| 23.12.2014 | Free Wifi for the Free Market: Is NYC’s Connectivity Solution Too Good to Be True? | Frank Sinatra called it “the city that never sleeps”. It seems fitting that the inhabitants will enjoy the best-performing city-wide publicly available WiFi on Earth, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Such are the claims proudly made by Mayor ... |
| 17.11.2014 | NYC Launches Free Gigabit Speed Wi-Fi Network | To the five boroughs: you’re getting free, superfast Wi-fi.
That’s right, New York City’s public spaces are going wireless thanks to a public-private consortium that’s bringing gigabit wi-fi connectivity through something called the LinkNYC... |
| 17.11.2014 | NYC Pay Phones Transforming Into Super-Fast Wi-Fi Hubs | Christian de Looper, Tech Times 17 November 2014, 09:11 pm
While it may seem like the humble pay phone is long dead, the city of New York has an idea that could bring it into the 21st century.
In fact, to keep up with the times, New York is... |
| 17.11.2014 | NYC to blanket the city in free public Wi-Fi with 10,000 stations | One of the LinkNYC booths that will bring free Wi-Fi to New York's streets. reader comments 89 with 53 posters participating
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| - | NYC’s public Wi-Fi network nixes deal to bring TikTok to ‘every street corner’ | New York City’s public Wi-Fi network has nixed a controversial deal with Chinese-owned TikTok to bring the service to “every street corner” after a Post inquiry and as congressional scrutiny over the app rages.
The planned partnership betwe... |
| - | New Yorkers back ‘ugly’ 32-foot cell phone towers, outnumber critics: poll | More On: cell phones
Get Mint Mobile’s unlimited 5G data plan: A great option for one person Here’s the shocking reason your phone addiction is ruining your sex life Tech firm pitches replacing ‘ugly’ 32-foot NYC 5G cell phone towers with n... |
| - | New York City removes the last payphone from service | New York City removed the last public payphone on Monday.
The city has been installing LinkNYC kiosks, which offer services like free phone calls, Wi-Fi and device charging. |
