VoIP telephony service, Skype, has announced that New York City will be getting free WiFi over the New Year’s.

From midday 31 December 2011 to midday 1 January 2012, New Yorkers in the Big Apple will be able to access free Skype WiFi within the areas covered by Towerstream’s network.

These places include: Times Square, West Village, East Village, South Village, Greenwich Village, NoHo, SoHo, Lowe East Side, Clinton, Chelsea, Union Square, Midtown, Midtown South, Murray Hill, Stuyvesant Park, and Turtle Bay.

Users may surf the web, or make Skype-to-Skype video or voice calls for free in these areas, by connecting to the ‘Skype WiFi’ hotspot through their device’s WiFi settings.

The latest version of Skype, or the Skype WiFi iOS app, must be installed on their mobile device.

[via The Next Web, image via Stuart Monk / Shutterstock.com]


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