4.09.2012

NYC Phone Booths to Become ‘Smart Screen’ Stations

As part of a pilot program, 250 phone booths across the five boroughs will be outfitted next month with 32-inch smart screens.

The free touch-screen technology will display local neighborhood information in multiple languages. It will include lists of restaurants, store sales, traffic updates, landmark information and safety alerts. Over time, the screens could replace all of the city’s 12,800 outdoor pay phones.

“The goal is to pilot it and see what the response is,” said Nicholas Sbordone, a spokesman for the city’s department of Information Technology and Telecommunications, told the Post. “It will help inform the city’s ongoing reassessment, with public input, of what we want or what we think the future of public pay phones will entail.”

Users also will be able to file complaints or request city information by pressing an on-screen 311 icon.

City24x7 will install and maintain the screens. It says the screens are built to be cleaned with a jet hose. ReachNYC

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