Internet vending machines sell Web access in five minute increments

I wonder what kinds of connections these ‘kiosks’ have. It would really suck if they are something not much faster than dialup, but then the users are being charged by the minute. If the user is going to heavy websites with lots of unoptimized image or video content or a bunch of ads that hog bandwidth, that would also suck. But I’m sure the provider of these units operates a proxy server so that it speeds things up for those sites which are heavily visited.

Think of the gaping privacy holes that abound for the poor users, too.

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