5/02/2008 at 12:05 PM
Tags: WiFi, Free WiFi, Airport WiFi, Boingo, Deals, Cell Phones (all tags)
Big-time WiFi contractor Boingo, which handles net access at heaps of airports around the world, is now offering iPhone and iPod Touch users 15 minutes of free access at 28 of its US, Canadian and UK airports. The promo is currently only for Apple users, but the company plans to expand the free 15 minutes to Nokia, Sony Ericsson and Windows Mobile users soon.
What's the catch? Not much of one: You'll just see a 15-second ad before you're free to surf. Boingo is ramping up its mobile offerings, and the promo gives the company a chance to do a little market research. In our view, it's win-win.
In the UK, you can jump online at London Heathrow, Gatwick and Stansted as well as at Edinburgh Airport and a couple others. In North America, there are a couple dozen airports in on the promo, with BWI, HOU, IAH, JFK, LGA, ORD and YYZ among them.
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[Photo: pouwerkerk]
by pbb
4/16/2008 at 2:30 PM
Tags: WiFi, Free WiFi, Airport WiFi, PHX, DEN, DIA (all tags)
Say it ain't so, PHX! The Phoenix airport, which we listed as one of the best in the US for WiFi, won't let you check out dirty websites while you're waiting for your flight. The airport filters web content in the terminals, a la Denver International.
Says The Rocky Mountain News, it's only one of a couple airports playing nanny for passengers:
A review of policies at two dozen of the nation's busiest airports found that DIA and Phoenix Sky Harbor are the only two that block content on their WiFi systems for travelers using their own laptops, according to [our] research.
As we told the author of the story, it's pretty ridiculous that the web is being censored while you can pick up nudie mags in the airport newsstand. (Though DIA should get some credit for making the WiFi free.) For more airports with free wireless, check out our handy map.
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[Photo: cogdogblog]
by pbb
4/07/2008 at 1:46 PM
Tags: Airport WiFi, Airport-WiFi-Map, Airport WiFi Guide, GRR, BDL, OKA, KUL, SNN (all tags)
Contribute your airport wireless report by leaving it in the comments, uploading your airport photo to Jaunted Flickr Photo Pool, or via email, and we'll add it to our U.S. Airport Wireless map.
After adding tons of US airports to our WiFi Map, we've decided to take it international. And thanks to some of our ever-mobile tipsters, we can fill you in on a couple spots right away.
Naha Airport in Okinawa has free internet at all the ANA gates, and Kuala Lumpur International has WiFi throughout, including in its Low Cost Carrier Terminal. In Europe, a tipster reports that there's no trouble getting online at Shannon International.
This doesn't mean we're giving up on domestic airports, btw. Lately we've heard that Gerald R. Ford International in Grand Rapids has WiFi as does Bradley International outside Hartford, Connecticut.
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[Photo of KLIA: bchow]
by pbb
3/11/2008 at 4:00 PM
Tags: WLG, New Zealand Travel, Airports, The Rock at WLG, Free WiFi, Airport WiFi (all tags)
Though Heathrow's T5 and Beijing's T3 are getting all the press, there's another world capital that's getting an airport update. Wellington has unveiled its new international terminal, called The Rock. It should be finished by the end of 2009.
The first stage of the project wrapped at the end of 2007, adding security and customs lanes, shopping and jet bridge improvements for international flights. The second half of the work will add more departure lounge seating, more bathrooms and a couple more international gates.
Of course airport officials hope the building's design will make it a destination:
The airport's South Coast location is represented by the inside aesthetics and outside shell of the building. Colored fragments of glass in the roof fissure let in a warm, natural light by day and backlighting at night creates a glow which will be seen from the air.
We shouldn't even need to mention it'll all be environmentally sound and heavy on green design elements. And, hey, it'll have free WiFi!
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by pbb
3/07/2008 at 3:52 PM
Tags: WiFi, Free WiFi, Airport WiFi, PHL (all tags)
We love when airports offer free WiFi. And since there aren't that many big ones giving access away, we should probably be happy with whatever free sort of service we can get, right?
Um...not quite. Philadelphia International offers up some confusing "free WiFi" access. College students can get free WiFi whenever they're in the airport:
The program allows students to present college identification at any airport information counter to receive a coupon with a code that gives access to the Internet for up to 24 hours from their laptop.
Similarly, any weekend travelers--college-aged or not--can get free access in the airport on Saturdays and Sunday without having to enter an authorization code.
Naturally, the airport is reporting more internet connections---a 132 percent spike. But shrewdly, they are still charging business travelers during the week. WiFi goes for $8 per 24 hours or you sign-up for one of those $40-a-month accounts. Lame.
All these airports have free WiFi
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[Photo: Magandafille]
by juliana
2/27/2008 at 3:16 PM
Tags: RIC, CVG, Airport WiFi, Airport-WiFi-Map, Airport WiFi Guide, Free WiFi (all tags)
Contribute your airport wireless report by leaving it in comments, uploading your airport photo to Jaunted Flickr Photo Pool, or via email, and we will add it to our U.S. Airport Wireless map.
You may not think of Cincinnati as a major airport city, but the Delta hub just south of town means more than a few passengers have layovers at CVG. Luckily, the airport just announced it'd be offering free wireless to flyers through a partnership with a couple local companies.
True, it's ad-supported, but we're not complaining. To get online, you'll need to be in Terminal 2 or 3 or in Concourse C. (No luck for you suckers in Concourses A and B.)
Elsewhere, Jaunted user dmlaenker let us know that Richmond International has free WiFi; just sniff out the network named "RIC." As always, we've added these to our Airport WiFi Map.
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by pbb
2/19/2008 at 3:50 PM
Tags: Airport WiFi, Airport-WiFi-Map, Airport WiFi Guide, Free WiFi, SMF, CLT, SAN (all tags)
Contribute your airport wireless report by leaving it in comments, uploading your airport photo to Jaunted Flickr Photo Pool, or via email, and we will add it to our U.S. Airport Wireless map.
We'd hate for you to forget about our Airport WiFi Guide, our up-to-date map of spots with free Internet access.
Reader Bruce wrote in to tell us about the situation at Charlotte-Douglas International, which sounds pretty cushy:
Charlotte-Douglas offers *free* wi-fi in all concourses, lounges and restaurants, even on the land side. There are comfy rocking chairs and accessible power outlets everywhere, too. And yes, this is full access, not just a jump to the paid service vendors.
We also hear that San Diego, Virgin America's latest destination, has free internet access. Further north, Sacramento International has a free signal throughout its facilities.
Keep sending in those tips, WiFi fans!
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by pbb
2/14/2008 at 2:00 PM
Tags: Airport WiFi, Southwest Airlines, SFO, WiFi (all tags)
Last week we did a day trip up to San Francisco. We were hoping that on our way back to Los Angeles that we could log on before our Southwest flight.
Sadly, this is what greeted us when we tried to surf the web at our gate at SFO. However, the gate did have a nifty seating area with a long desk-type table so passengers had a place to work. There were even some outlets readily available.
But we still couldn't bring ourselves to cough up the $7.95 one-day fee. Maybe if we had an hour or more to kill. And that's a big maybe...
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by juliana
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