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> What do we do at airports? We kill time. And there are few better and more productive ways of killing time than logging on to the Web...It should be everywher
by BlameKaneda 5y ago
> What do we do at airports? We kill time. And there are few better and more productive ways of killing time than logging on to the Web...It should be everywhere, and it should be free.
As long as the airports continue to make a killing off of internet fees, I can't imagine this happening any time soon.
- tvst 5y agoOr perhaps the opposite could happen: as more and more people start carrying devices that have access to the internet via cellular connection, airports could start providing Wi-Fi for free, as they could use that for tracking, marketing, and other "fun" uses
- rhino369 5y agoORD and DCA have free wifi and they collect emails presumably for that marketing purpose.
- Macha 5y agoI think it's roaming fees that really get airports able to charge for wifi. 4G on my phone is already way more reliable than any airport wifi, and since within the EU it doesn't cost anything to use my data allowance while roaming, I never use airport wifi in the EU, it's only in the US I use it because there I have to pay €10/gb in advance for roaming data allowances.
- airstrike 5y agoNext time they can just bring a book... Somehow humanity has managed to kill time for millennia before ARPANET
- wasmitnetzen 5y agoA book doesn't let me check if my flight is on time, check the weather at the destination, message anyone expecting me at the other end, ... There's a multitude of reasons to have a decent internet connection at an airport.
- airstrike 5y agoYes, but killing time is not one of them.
- grecy 5y agoWhat airport doesn't have free wifi? Of the dozens I've been to in the last 5 years they all did - even Bamako in Mali, Dar in Tanzania, Addis in Ethiopia, etc. etc.
- flemhans 5y agoAgreed, I don't remember the last time payment was required. Some do try to harvest your email address and organs.