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A blue phone box in Leeds, a city in West Yorkshire.
AQL have converted 24 old British Telecom red phone boxes into mini WiFi hubs, they repainted them blue, as a partial tribute to Doctor Who's Tardis.
They broadcast a free WiFi signal powered by solar energy, and through a series of touch screens on the outside, are available for phone calls, video messaging and emergency phone calls too.
The old English name for the city of Leeds is Leodis, so these boxes have been given a suitably full acronym: Leeds Electronic Ordnance and Digital Information System, or LEODIS.
Dr Adam Beaumont, CEO of AQL commented: “The boxes will also allow members of the public to leave video blogs and soundbites of their memories of the area in past times. We won’t be putting the blue boxes in any other cities, as we want them to be a symbol of Leeds, we want them to become iconic.”
Information Source:
www.bbcamerica.com/anglophenia/2013/07/leeds-is-invaded-b...
40914
A blue phone box in Leeds, a city in West Yorkshire.
AQL have converted 24 old British Telecom red phone boxes into mini WiFi hubs, they repainted them blue, as a partial tribute to Doctor Who's Tardis.
They broadcast a free WiFi signal powered by solar energy, and through a series of touch screens on the outside, are available for phone calls, video messaging and emergency phone calls too.
The old English name for the city of Leeds is Leodis, so these boxes have been given a suitably full acronym: Leeds Electronic Ordnance and Digital Information System, or LEODIS.
Dr Adam Beaumont, CEO of AQL commented: “The boxes will also allow members of the public to leave video blogs and soundbites of their memories of the area in past times. We won’t be putting the blue boxes in any other cities, as we want them to be a symbol of Leeds, we want them to become iconic.”
Information Source:
www.bbcamerica.com/anglophenia/2013/07/leeds-is-invaded-b...