kiosks/media.csv

publish_date,publication,title,url,authorities
2017-06-27,Wired UK,"Phone boxes across the UK are being turned into free 1Gbps Wi-Fi hotspots and charging stations",https://www.wired.co.uk/article/link-free-wifi-london,Camden
2017-06-27,Mobile News,"First InLink hits Camden High Street",http://www.mobilenewscwp.co.uk/2017/06/27/first-inlink-hits-camden-high-street/,Camden
2017-06-27,Gizmodo UK,"Goodbye phone boxes, hello wifi kiosk: Hands on with BT InLink",http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2017/06/goodbye-phone-boxes-hello-wifi-kiosk-hands-on-with-bt-inlink/,Camden
2017-10-26,Camden New Journal,"Police urge Town Hall to block new wave of phone boxes",http://camdennewjournal.com/article/police-urge-town-hall-to-block-new-wave-of-phone-boxes,Camden
2017-11-29,Wandsworth Guardian,"Residents call for council to reject new 'eyesore' BT kiosks",https://www.yourlocalguardian.co.uk/news/15690988.residents-call-for-council-to-reject-new-eyesore-bt-kiosks/,Wandsworth
2017-12-13,Adrian Short,"InLink kiosks: Email to Wandsworth Council's planning applications committee",https://www.adrianshort.org/posts/2017/wandsworth-council-inlink-privacy/,Wandsworth
2017-12-14,Adrian Short,"BT InLink in London: building a privatised ""smart city"" by stealth",https://www.adrianshort.org/posts/2017/bt-inlink-london-smart-city/,London
2017-12-19,Wandsworth Guardian,"Plans to install new BT kiosks in Wandsworth approved by council",https://www.yourlocalguardian.co.uk/news/15782260.plans-to-install-new-bt-kiosks-in-wandsworth-approved-by-council/,Wandsworth
2018-01-04,Adrian Short,"Google InLink spy kiosks targeting kids in London and Leeds",https://www.adrianshort.org/posts/2017/google-inlink-spy-kiosks-targeting-kids/,Leeds|Wandsworth|Lambeth
2018-01-29,ISPreview,"Local UK councils rail against surge in Trojan telephone boxes",https://www.ispreview.co.uk/index.php/2018/01/local-uk-councils-rail-surge-trojan-telephone-boxes.html,
2018-02-16,Wired UK,"Stop replacing London’s phone boxes with corporate surveillance",https://www.wired.co.uk/article/linkuk-bt-google-free-wifi-and-calls-london,London
2018-02-21,Islington Gazette,"Islington Society takes aim at digital phone boxes, likens them to ‘plague of locusts’",http://www.islingtongazette.co.uk/news/environment/islington-society-takes-aim-at-digital-phone-boxes-likens-them-to-plague-of-locusts-1-5404024,Islington
2018-02-22,Islington Society,"Society leads resistance to new phone boxes",https://www.islingtonsociety.org.uk/news/society-leads-resistance-to-new-phone-boxes/,Islington
2018-04-03,Wandsworth Guardian,"Hundredth BT InLinkUK kiosks switched on in Wandsworth",https://www.yourlocalguardian.co.uk/news/16134222.hundredth-bt-inlinkuk-kiosks-switched-on-in-wandsworth/,Wandsworth
2018-04-04,Bristol Post,"BT plan to replace Bristol's telephone boxes with these modern wifi portals",https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol-news/bt-plan-replace-bristols-telephone-1417266,Bristol|Wandsworth
2018-04-06,Adrian Short,"Is Intersection part of Google?",https://www.adrianshort.org/posts/2018/intersection-sidewalk-labs-google-alphabet/,Bristol|Wandsworth
2018-04-06,Adblock Bristol,"Act now! 34 new digital advertising screens planned for Bristol city centre",http://adblockbristol.org.uk/2018/04/act-now-thirty-four-new-digital-advertising-screens-planned-for-bristol-city-centre/,Bristol
2018-04-12,Bristol Post,"BT's new InLink WiFi portals will introduce dozens of new security cameras to Bristol's streets",https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol-news/bts-new-inlink-wifi-portals-1445687,Bristol
2018-04-17,Bristol Cable,"Opinion: Bristol’s new phoneboxes could end up spying on you",https://thebristolcable.org/2018/04/opinion-bts-spy-kiosks-could-be-coming-to-bristol/,Bristol|London
2018-04-20,Sky News,"Swipe: Upgraded phone boxes",https://youtu.be/rMnMtWdwNe8?t=126,""
2018-04-23,Bristol Walking Alliance,"InLink advertising monoliths",https://bristolwalkingalliance.org.uk/2018/04/23/inlink-advertising-monoliths/,Bristol
2018-04-25,Chronicle Live,"Trojan phone box 'turmoil' ahead of Great Exhibition of the North",https://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/north-east-news/trojan-phone-box-turmoil-ahead-14570686,Newcastle upon Tyne
2018-05-23,Adblock Bristol,"Success! 34 digital advertising screens rejected by Bristol City Council",http://adblockbristol.org.uk/2018/05/success-advertising-screens-rejected/,Bristol
2018-06-12,Adrian Short,"InLink is dodging full planning permission in Kingston",https://www.adrianshort.org/posts/2018/kingston-inlink-planning-permission/,Kingston upon Thames|Bristol
2018-06-18,Islington Tribune,"‘Horrible tsunami’ of phone boxes planned",http://islingtontribune.com/article/horrible-tsunami-of-phone-boxes-planned,Islington|Leeds|Glasgow
2018-06-19,ISPreview,"BT begin deploying 12 ultrafast wifi InLinkUK kiosks in Glasgow",https://www.ispreview.co.uk/index.php/2018/06/bt-begin-deploying-12-ultrafast-wifi-inlinkuk-kiosks-in-glasgow.html,Glasgow|London|Leeds|Birmingham|Southampton|Newcastle upon Tyne|Sheffield|Kensington and Chelsea
2018-07-04,"Chronicle Live","Why bosses think the 'Trojan' phone boxes should be built in Newcastle and Gateshead",https://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/north-east-news/bosses-think-trojan-phone-boxes-14866211,Newcastle upon Tyne|Gateshead
2018-07-07,Ham&High,"Revealed: How new digital phone boxes are helping to drive Camden’s drug trade",http://www.hamhigh.co.uk/news/crime-court/new-bt-inlink-panels-being-used-by-camden-s-drug-trade-1-5550889,Camden
2018-08-23,ISPreview,"Sheffield, Newcastle and Gateshead get BT InLinkUK gigabit wifi kiosks",https://www.ispreview.co.uk/index.php/2018/08/sheffield-newcastle-and-gateshead-get-bt-inlinkuk-gigabit-wifi-kiosks.html,Sheffield|Newcastle upon Tyne|Gateshead|London|Leeds|Glasgow|Southampton
2018-09-07,CoventryLive,"This is why you might not be getting free super fast wifi in Coventry",https://www.coventrytelegraph.net/news/coventry-news/you-might-not-getting-free-15113081,Coventry
2018-09-07,Westminster City Council,"Westminster at war with ‘whack-a-mole’ phone boxes",https://www.westminster.gov.uk/westminster-war-whack-mole-phone-boxes,Westminster
2018-09-07,Engineering and Technology,"Crime link stalls 5G phone boxes",https://eandt.theiet.org/content/articles/2018/09/crime-connection-stalls-5g-phone-boxes/,Tower Hamlets|Bristol|Camden|Coventry|Kingston upon Thames|Liverpool
2018-09-10,Gizmodo UK,"Police postpone installation of BT's 5G internet kiosks over drug links",http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2018/09/police-postpone-installation-of-bts-5g-internet-kiosks-over-drug-links/,Camden|Bristol|Tower Hamlets
2018-09-10,Huffpost UK,"BT digital kiosks expansion halted after claims they're 'used mainly for drug dealing'",https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/bt-digital-kiosks_uk_5b96aa2ae4b0511db3e4fda8,Camden|Tower Hamlets|Bristol|Liverpool|Coventry|Kingston upon Thames
2018-09-14,Engineering and Technology,"Westminster brands 5G phone kiosks a deceit",https://eandt.theiet.org/content/articles/2018/09/westminster-brands-5g-phone-boxes-a-deceit/,Westminster|Bristol|City of London|Hackney|Hammersmith|Islington|Kingston upon Thames|Liverpool|Tower Hamlets
2018-09-17,Cian Heasley,"An interview with anti-surveillance activists ReThink LinkNYC on tech, privacy and the future of smart cities",https://medium.com/@nscrutables/an-interview-with-rethinklinknyc-on-tech-privacy-the-future-of-smart-cities-8bfe4a987876,Glasgow
2018-09-29,New York Times,"On crowded London streets, councils fight a flood of phone boxes",https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/29/world/europe/london-phone-boxes-inlink.html,Westminster
2018-10-01,BBC One (Wales),"X-Ray: Omar Hamdi tries out the latest futuristic phone boxes to appear on the streets of Swansea (at 9m 48s)",https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b0bltlmz/xray-series-18-episode-1,Swansea|Cardiff|Leeds|Southampton|Glasgow|Newcastle|Bristol|Liverpool|Edinburgh
2018-10-02,Sutton Guardian,"BT InLink kiosks: Plans to build Sutton's first units thrown out",https://www.yourlocalguardian.co.uk/news/16955356.bt-inlink-kiosks-plans-to-build-suttons-first-units-thrown-out/,Sutton|Leeds|Glasgow|Newcastle|Swansea
2018-10-05,Independent,"Why critics are calling Britain's new phone boxes a 'surveillance network'",https://www.independent.co.uk/news/long_reads/telephone-phone-boxes-surveillance-british-culture-public-space-london-long-reads-westminster-a8569096.html,Westminster
2018-10-12,Engineering and Technology,"5G street fight",https://eandt.theiet.org/content/articles/2018/10/5g-street-fight/,Camden|Hammersmith and Fulham|Southampton|Nottingham|Glasgow|Sheffield|Waltham Forest|Tower Hamlets|City of London|Westminster|Liverpool|Coventry|Kingston upon Thames|Hackney|Southwark|Lambeth|Bristol|Islington
2018-10-12,Engineering and Technology,Cities block 5G kiosks after doing rival deals,https://eandt.theiet.org/content/articles/2018/10/cities-block-5g-kiosk-rollout-after-doing-rival-deals,City of London|Westminster|Coventry|Liverpool|Birmingham|Bristol|Edinburgh|Hammersmith and Fulham|Hackney|Kingston upon Thames|Islington|Camden|Hackney
2018-11-16,Bristol Post,"BT 'in talks' with council to bring controversial InLinks to Bristol despite drug dealer fears",https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol-news/bt-wifi-inlinks-bristol-drug-2228617,Bristol
2018-11-30,ChiswickW4.com,"BT plan to replace phone boxes on High Road with InLink units",http://www.chiswickw4.com/default.asp?section=info&page=conplan106.htm,Hounslow
2018-12-05,Engineering and Technology,"BT disables next-gen phones to counter London drugs gangs crisis",https://eandt.theiet.org/content/articles/2018/12/bt-disables-next-gen-phones-to-counter-london-drug-gangs-crisis/,Tower Hamlets
2018-12-21,Engineering and Technology,"Twenty thousand drug deals on five InLink phone kiosks in 15 weeks",https://eandt.theiet.org/content/articles/2018/12/twenty-thousand-drug-deals-on-five-inlink-phone-kiosks/,Tower Hamlets
2019-01-18,Adrian Short,"Police object to new Google InLink kiosks over drug deal phone calls",https://www.adrianshort.org/posts/2019/inlink-police-drug-dealing/,Tower Hamlets|Merton|Westminster|Sutton
2019-01-22,Wimbledon Times,"Proposed InLink kiosk for Wimbledon town centre rejected as police warn drug dealers are using them",https://www.wimbledonguardian.co.uk/news/17375899.proposed-inlink-kiosk-for-wimbledon-town-centre-rejected-as-police-warn-drug-dealers-are-using-them/,Merton|Tower Hamlets
2019-01-30,BrentfordTW8.com,"Council refuse BT plans for ad display monoliths",http://www.brentfordtw8.com/default.asp?section=info&page=planning051.htm,Hounslow
2019-02-03,"Sunday Times (paywall)","Free InLinkUK phone kiosks used for thousands of street drug deals",https://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/news/free-phone-kiosks-used-for-thousands-of-street-drug-deals-fwhxfzk5v,Tower Hamlets|Merton|Westminster
2019-02-05,"BBC London News","InLink drug dealing in Tower Hamlets",https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Azxy69OechU,Tower Hamlets
2019-02-12,"Telegraph","Councils given new powers to block phoneboxes being built",https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2019/02/12/councils-given-new-powers-block-phone-boxes-built/,Westminster
2019-02-14,"Planning Resource","The ruling that could end prior approval consents for phone kiosks (paywall)",https://www.planningresource.co.uk/article/1525680/ruling-end-prior-approval-consents-phone-kiosks,Westminster
2019-02-20,"London Forum of Amenity and Civic Societies","A ruling that could end prior approval consents for phone kiosks (PDF)",https://www.londonforum.org.uk/reports/A_ruling_that_could_end_prior_approval_consents_for_phone_kiosks.pdf,Westminster|Camden
2019-02-28,"Islington Council","Islington Council takes action to tackle anti-social abuse of free-phone units",https://www.islington.media/news/islington-council-takes-action-to-tackle-anti-social-abuse-of-free-phone-units,Islington
2019-03-20,Manchester Evening News,"New futuristic phone kiosks in Piccadilly Gardens are being used to arrange drug deals",https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-manchester-news/new-futuristic-phone-kiosks-piccadilly-15897108,Manchester|Tower Hamlets
2019-04-09,Manchester Evening News,"From now on, phone kiosks in Piccadilly Gardens will know if you're trying to buy drugs",https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-manchester-news/piccadilly-gardens-phone-kiosks-drugs-16098562,Manchester|Salford|Tower Hamlets
2019-04-12,Evening Standard,"‘Smart’ phone boxes are a honeypot for drug dealers, BT told",https://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/smart-phone-boxes-are-a-honeypot-for-drug-dealers-bt-told-a4116226.html,Tower Hamlets|Islington
2019-04-12,Engadget,"An algorithm is attempting to block drug deals at UK WiFi kiosks",https://www.engadget.com/2019/04/12/bt-inlink-uk-algorithm-block-calls/,
2019-04-16,"Evening Express (Aberdeen)","New wifi and phone hubs to be officially unveiled in Aberdeen city centre",https://www.eveningexpress.co.uk/fp/news/local/new-wifi-and-phone-hubs-to-be-officially-unveiled-in-aberdeen-city-centre/,Aberdeen|Glasgow
2019-04-12,BBC 1 News London,"InLink issues in Tower Hamlets",https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5yg7yzv6N6c,Tower Hamlets
2019-04-30,"Brighton & Hove News","BT plans to remove 26 payphones and replace them with controversial hubs",https://www.brightonandhovenews.org/2019/04/30/bt-plans-to-remove-26-payphones-and-replace-them-with-controversial-hubs/,Brighton and Hove
2019-07-09,"Bradford Telegraph and Argus","High tech phone hubs to measure city centre air quality",https://www.thetelegraphandargus.co.uk/news/17756473.high-tech-phone-hubs-measure-city-centre-air-quality/,Bradford