New York City's public pay phones are officially a thing of history. The last one was removed on Monday — and is heading straight to a local museum.
that they will be replaced with a digital kiosk,"boosting accessibility and connectivity across the city." The company says it's deployed thousands of Links across the city, and has facilitated more than 3 billion Wi-Fi sessions with more than 10 million subscribers.
"In less than a decade we've gone from pay phones on street corners to free Wi-Fi kiosks all over our city," Won said."We're on the right track towards making NYC technologically equitable and we must continue this work to connect more New Yorkers to affordable high speed internet in their homes and schools."
"Just like we transitioned from the horse and buggy to the automobile and from the automobile to the airplane, the digital evolution has progressed from pay phones to high-speed Wi-Fi kiosks to meet the demands of our rapidly changing daily communications needs," he said in a statement shared with NPR.
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