By Ben Fox Rubin, Cnet, November 17, 2014
As part of the $200 million project, the first new hubs are expected to come online in late 2015.
New York City plans to turn its lowly public payphone network into what it claims will be the biggest and fastest free municipal Wi-Fi network in the world.
City leaders revealed the $200 million plan, called LinkNYC, on Monday at City Hall. The project will replace the Big Apple's thousands of payphone installations with thin, sleek, 9.5-foot hubs providing unlimited Internet access at super-high speeds of up to 1 gigabit per second.
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