To: FARcom who wrote (3308 ) 2/15/1999 11:15:00 AM From: Rory McLeod Read Replies (2) | Respond to
Morning Everyone ... Happy Washington's ... yeah, yeah.Back in the early Nineties, public fax booths spectacularly failed to take off. Fast forward to the other end of the decade and Intenet kiosks are the very latest coin-op to compete for your cash on the high street. The internet is now so popular that everyone from preschool children to pensioners (known as Silver Surfers to marketing bods) are using it, so US company Golden Screens has ambitious plans to install Internet kiosks in airports, bus stations, rest areas and busy street corners. The pilot project, called Transcom, will bring together transport information - such as timetables and news delays - with e-mail access, web browsing and on-line banking. Spanning New York, New Jersey and Connecticut, access is expected to cost around 15p <my note: approx 25 cents US> per minute - sold in blocks of ten minutes - and if all goes to plan, GSA will roll out the experiment to the rest of the US. Featuring standard as well as touchscreen keyboards, the kiosk can also double up as a normal public phone.
