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Re:China is Changing Public Telephone Booths into Wifi Hotspots by tewks on Friday December 17, 2010 @08:23PM (#2018585)
BT did this a while ago, starting around 2003.

I'm not sure how heavily used they are, though I'd suspect not tremendously.

Re:China is Changing Public Telephone Booths into Wifi Hotspots by bensummers on Saturday December 18, 2010 @04:05AM (#2019194)
Lots of smartphone mobile contracts come with free wifi on the big hotspot providers like BT Openzone. I suspect most of their use is phones automatically hopping on to them when their users are walking down busy streets. I doubt they'd still be active if no one used them.