Re:NYC Reinvent Payphones: Prototype Hack Day
by jack-r-abbit on Friday December 21, 2012 @03:52PM
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Interesting. I think it would be nice to see every payphone turned into a wifi hotspot wired into a city wide network. This serves two things: 1) City wide wifi (Don't we all want that?) 2)Payphones are then just VOIP handsets with a payment machine attached. Win-Win
Payphone fees could probably be reduced but maybe not. Maybe the money collected from the payphones is used to (partially?) offset the costs of running the city wide network.
Re:NYC Reinvent Payphones: Prototype Hack Day
by jonnycowboy on Saturday December 22, 2012 @11:16AM
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A great payphone hack would be to make it a dead-drop. Ie: put in a hard drive and a usb port and small controller. Then plug in your usb key, dial a number, it gets copied to the HD. Next person to insert his key and dial your number gets the data you copied.
Payphone fees could probably be reduced but maybe not. Maybe the money collected from the payphones is used to (partially?) offset the costs of running the city wide network.