Cells & the City: LinkNYC Connects New Yorkers with Fast, Free Mobile Service

LinkNYC console in Midtown Manhattan. Foto Hans Klis
LinkNYC console in Midtown Manhattan. Foto Hans Klis

A city-backed service allows New Yorkers to surf the mobile web on the streets of Manhattan for free and at higher speeds than in their homes. Hans Klis reports from the Big Apple…

The cellular reception on the corner of Fifth Avenue and 56th Street in New York has never been spotless. The endless stream of tourists and businessmen staring at their devices and the looming skyscrapers interfering with signals are to blame for that.

But it has gotten worse ever since Donald Trump got elected president. Since then, smart phone browsers have seemingly gotten a little slower and the audio from streaming services hiccup more often in this part of Manhattan.

Luckily there’s a LinkNYCconsole on the corner of Fifth and 56th. And if you’re not intimidated by the heavily-armed policemen stationed there, you can experience superfast WI-FI of around 400 Mbps. That’s about 15 times faster than at your average coffee place and almost ten times faster than most home networks.

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