Verizon to pull free Wi-Fi in NYC, promote EV-DO

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New York still has a lot of free wifi spots. One that I know of and tried
was in Bryant Park. You can find more here. http://www.wififreespot.com/
My guess is that the service was never highly used. I knew about them for a
while but couldn't never take advantage of them. I don't live in NYC but I
did work there and I was just out of reach of the closest phone booth with
wifi. Plus, the range of them was only to a maximum of 300 feet and in NYC
with all the other interferences, I'm guessing it was a lot less than that.
Furthermore, for some of the booths, there was no convenient place to sit
down and use the signal. They were on high congested corners with nothing
but stores or office buildings surrounding them. Even if a booth with wifi
was close enough to my building, I probably never would have gotten a signal
from inside. Hell, it was bad enough that our Nortel phones didn't even get
signals most of the time inside.
"Shiva" <shiva@universe.cosmos> wrote in message
news:MMDce.2643$GQ5.2424@newsread1.news.pas.earthlink.net...
> Verizon has decided to do away with its free wi-fi service in New York
> City. It will instead promote EV-DO.
>
> This is according to an item in the news today. A link is provided for
> reading up on the story:
>
> http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/2005042 [...] &printer=1
>
> I did not even know that the service was there! But I seem to have read,
> very recently at that, that some cities are on the way to do the reverse -
> provide free Internet hot-spots citywide.
>
> Shiva
>

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So true.
"Paul" <paule-nospam@mindspring.com> wrote in message
news:117aodk4ttod801@news.supernews.com...
> IIRC, Verizon WiFi in NYC was never free - you had to be a Verizon DSL
> (landline) customer to be able to use it free, otherwise you paid.
>
> -- Paul
>
>
> "J" <J@J.com> wrote in message newsQRce.2735$yd1.2324@trndny01...
>> New York still has a lot of free wifi spots. One that I know of and
>> tried was in Bryant Park. You can find more here.
>> http://www.wififreespot.com/ My guess is that the service was never
>> highly used. I knew about them for a while but couldn't never take
>> advantage of them. I don't live in NYC but I did work there and I was
>> just out of reach of the closest phone booth with wifi. Plus, the range
>> of them was only to a maximum of 300 feet and in NYC with all the other
>> interferences, I'm guessing it was a lot less than that. Furthermore, for
>> some of the booths, there was no convenient place to sit down and use the
>> signal. They were on high congested corners with nothing but stores or
>> office buildings surrounding them. Even if a booth with wifi was close
>> enough to my building, I probably never would have gotten a signal from
>> inside. Hell, it was bad enough that our Nortel phones didn't even get
>> signals most of the time inside.
>> "Shiva" <shiva@universe.cosmos> wrote in message
>> news:MMDce.2643$GQ5.2424@newsread1.news.pas.earthlink.net...
>>> Verizon has decided to do away with its free wi-fi service in New York
>>> City. It will instead promote EV-DO.
>>>
>>> This is according to an item in the news today. A link is provided for
>>> reading up on the story:
>>>
>>> http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/2005042 [...] &printer=1
>>>
>>> I did not even know that the service was there! But I seem to have read,
>>> very recently at that, that some cities are on the way to do the
>>> reverse - provide free Internet hot-spots citywide.
>>>
>>> Shiva
>>>
>>
>>
>
>