Slideshow: Pumping Life Into the Pay Phone

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Wireless pay-phone booths look like covered-up pay phones with "AccessZone" printed on them. But instead of a tethered phone, they have a wireless modem inside.

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In a pilot program that will run until sometime this spring, Bell Canada is offering customers in Toronto, Montreal and Kingston free Wi-Fi wireless Internet access. Sixteen booths, sprinkled in airports, hotels, libraries, train stations and other public transit locations, will provide the service. As with regular Wi-Fi access, customers must be within 100 feet of the booth to get a signal.