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Jan 2016
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Free WiFi comes to the streets of New Yo...

Financial Times
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New York is ripping out its ageing phone boxes and replacing them with more than 7,000 WiFi routers to give the city free and fast internet access. Senior US business correspondent David Crow talks to city residents about the new service. Music by Blue Dot Sessions.

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