Mark Thomas is using a pay phone, but he isn’t paying. And physically, he’s not even that close to the phone.
He’s sitting on a bench on the street in Astoria, Queens, checking email on his netbook. It’s grabbing an Internet signal from a military-grade antenna on top of a pay phone down the block.
“It’s not the speediest but you can’t complain about free, right?” Thomas says.
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