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I'm actually shocked that they knew where all the pay phones were. I feel like they're going to announce in like a year that they messed up and found another on
by jppope 4y ago
I'm actually shocked that they knew where all the pay phones were. I feel like they're going to announce in like a year that they messed up and found another one in like queens or something.
- busterarm 4y agoThey're a platform for advertising that's all owned by the same company (Titan, which merged into the company that owns LinkNYC). Advertisers keep good records.
- bogomipz 4y agoThe folks behind this advertising platform is much more of a Matryoshka doll though. Briefly, the history is that the contract to replace the pay phone kiosks was awarded to a consortium called CityBridge which consisted of Titan, Qualcomm, Comark and Control Group. Control Group and Titan then merged to form a company called Intersection. The lead investor in Intersection was Sidewalk Labs aka Alphabet aka Google. The CEO of of Sidewalk Labs is Daniel Doctoroff who was the Deputy Mayor for Economic Development and Rebuilding under NYC Mayor Mike Bloomberg. As always follow the money.
- busterarm 4y agoWell aware of this, without going into it all. -- I interviewed there some years ago. The manager at the time who was interviewing was a really cool dude but he moved on to Amazon since then.
- astura 4y agoWell someone has to empty them, right? So they must know where they are. Per the article, there's some private payphones around still, so you might still see them.