NYC's 1,600 LinkNYC kiosks, which replaced aging city payphones and provide free Wi-Fi and US phone calls, are now seeing 5M users and 500K phone calls a month (Kyle Wiggers/VentureBeat)

Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat:
NYC's 1,600 LinkNYC kiosks, which replaced aging city payphones and provide free Wi-Fi and US phone calls, are now seeing 5M users and 500K phone calls a month  —  In 2014, in a bid to replace the more than 11,000 aging payphones scattered across New York City's pedestrian walkways …

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