New York City to Offer Free Gigabit Wi-Fi in 2015

New York City on Monday unveiled an ambitious plan to roll out a free city-wide municipal Wi-Fi network that officials say will be the fastest and most wide-reaching network of its kind in the world.

At a press conference at City Hall, the city unveiled LinkNYC, which will rely on thousands of kiosks that will be deployed at locations currently occupied by pay phones.

The kiosks will be installed in as many as 10,000 locations throughout the five boroughs and will offer Wi-Fi service of one gigabit per second within a radius of 150 feet.

They'll also offer free domestic voice calls to all 50 states.

Read more: The first of the kiosks is expected to begin service in late 2015.