New life for the phone booth. But the hotspot does not take off

IN PIAZZA San Babila, in Milan, there is one of the 18.390 public telephone booths remained in Italy. As the first built in 1952, he turns his gaze to the Basilica that gives its name to the square and to the neighborhood. If a time was one of the few modes of distance communication, in mobility, today is still much discussion on how to use them. Telecom has been authorised the demolition of the time, 30 thousand a year because their use with the mobile phone is dramatically reduced. But the Authority for the Guarantees in Communications has every intention to resume the thread of their fate, arguing that their presence in the area could facilitate the provision of other communications services, including the broadband and ultrabroadband , to access the internet, as well as by the fixed network, even on the move, using wi-fi”. For this reason, in 2013, with the start of the mapping of the access networks to the internet, it was possible to make an interactive map of the booths available at the address https://maps.agcom.it by clicking on Reporting (new), and then Analysis of Public phones (new).