Titan Win RFP To Turn NYC Pay Phones Into Wi-Fi Hubs
Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief
According to Crain’s New York Business it would appear that Titan have won the NYC bid to turn (old) pay phones into Wi-Fi hubs.
Crain’s Matthew Flamm spotted in The City Record, an announcement of a public hearing to be held by the franchise committee on December 8, between the city of New York and CityBridge LLC, which is a Titan trademark, according to an application the outdoor-advertising company filed in July.
Our regular readers will know that this RFP for ‘Public Communications Structures & WiFi’ calls for 10,000 locations across all five New York boroughs and some estimates (we heard again, during New York Digital Signage Week) place the 15-year contract value at USD 750 million.
Tom Touchet, City24x7 CEO will almost certainly claim credit for this idea, interviewed online in June 2014 , he said “all this, because about five years ago, we walked into the city and pitched this idea, then began working incredibly hard to make that idea a reality” but we fear, has lost out should he have had any hope of winning this particular RFP.
Titan bid for this RFP with a partner (as bidders were encouraged to do in the RFP that went out from the Department of Information Technology & Telecommunications last May) but it was not City24x7, it most likely being Control Group.
Titan acquired All NY Verizon phone kiosks back in August 2010 and re-imagined NYC pay phones in March 2013.
Both Van Wagner Kiosk Advertising Inc. and Titan have been testing the Wi-Fi service for New York’s Department of Information Technology and Telecommunications since August 2012.
Whilst many believe that all will be revealed on December 8. 2014 we think it much more likely that we see a press release sometime this week!
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