Public phone booths in Sweden will be 'reassigned' to public stations for wireless Internet access. One of the major Scandinavian Internet Service Providers - TeliaSonera - stated that about 700 public phone booths would be equipped with stations for wireless Internet access. This equipment will enable Swedish to access Internet wirelessly virtually from anywhere near a phone booth within 500 feet.
This way TeliaSonera intends to find a place in the wireless 21st century for the old telephone booths, which were prophesied to extinguish within a few decades.
News agencies report that a user will need a laptop and a mobile phone, to retrieve a unique password for Internet access.
The process of re-equipment of the phone booths' is to start in the Swedish major cities - Stockholm, Goteborg and Malmo, followed by other 20 cities.
It is worth mentioning that in April London authorities expressed an idea of embracing the main English river - Thames - into a Wi-Fi net for wireless Internet access. Thus two events show a tenancy of ISPs to equip or re-equip places mostly visited by people for a more comfortable wireless Internet access.
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