You too can put up a phone booth (by buying sidewalk rights from the city).
There are a lot of non-VZ phone booths around manhattan, mostly owned by TCG (now AT&T LS), setup near their fiber rights-of-way. -alex On Tue, 27 May 2003, Don Montalvo wrote: > Just wondering if there was a conflict of interest since Verizon owns > virtually every phone booth in Manhattah (well...close to all of > them). > > Where's the competition? > > :) > Don > > At 9:48 -0700 5/27/03, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > >Conflict of interest between what and what, precisely? > > > >Verizon's contract with NYC is to provide services to NYC government. > > > >(Empire City Subway is a separate issue, but there's no conflict either). > > > >-alex > > > >On Tue, 27 May 2003, Don Montalvo wrote: > > > >> Wouldn't that be a serious conflict of interest? Verizon has a years > >> old contract with NYC. > >> > >> Don > >> > >> At 8:09 -0700 5/27/03, "Jon Baer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> > >> >According to this article in Seattle times, Verizon plans for the > >>network to > >> >remain closed to their customers only: > >> > > >> > >> >http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/businesstechnology/134812850_bthispeedsummit26.html > >> > > >> >(Verizon President Lawrence Babbio) > >> > > >> >-snip- > >> >But Babbio said its Wi-Fi service only will be available to Verizon's DSL > >> >subscribers and the company has no plans to offer a public Wi-Fi network. > >> >-snip- > >> > > > > >- Jon > > -- > NYCwireless - http://www.nycwireless.net/ > Un/Subscribe: http://lists.nycwireless.net/mailman/listinfo/nycwireless/ > Archives: http://lists.nycwireless.net/pipermail/nycwireless/ > -- NYCwireless - http://www.nycwireless.net/ Un/Subscribe: http://lists.nycwireless.net/mailman/listinfo/nycwireless/ Archives: http://lists.nycwireless.net/pipermail/nycwireless/
