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Airport WiFi: Boingo Offering Playoff Baseball for Four Bucks

October 6, 2008 at 5:15 PM | 0 Comments

If you've been frustrated enough by free airport WiFi that you've signed up for Boingo, you're in luck this playoff season. The nearly ubiquitous wireless provider has inked a deal with MLB.tv to offer up live, streaming webcasts of the Division Series. (Two contests in the American League remain this year; Boingo says the promo will continue into the two Championship Series.)

The "airport edition" of MLB.tv will offer the games at 23 different airports and without blackouts, a bonus that might come in handy if you're flying through Chicago tonight. Otherwise, the benefit to the service is simply that you don't have to elbow your way into a packed airport bar to catch the game.

You get four hours of access for $4, so hope that your hometown heroes can bring in a win without going to extra innings.

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WiFi Travel: Beijing Suddenly Has More Connections to Monitor

August 12, 2008 at 5:15 PM | 0 Comments

Worldwide wireless provider Boingo has just launched 349 new hotspots in Beijing, a move timed to coincide with the Olympics.

The full list of hotspots is here, though it currently only shows 329 places to jump online. You can use Boingo's new Aspirin promotion, but since these connections are overseas, you'll have to pay a "premium fee" to get online.

Presumably, the WiFi is still under the same restrictions as all internet access in China, so your mileage may vary. Earlier this year, we discussed some strategies for circumventing state control of the internet.

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Boingo Giving Away Free WiFi This Weekend

July 2, 2008 at 9:30 AM | 0 Comments

The airport internet provider we love to hate, Boingo, is giving away WiFi this holiday weekend. You'll only get 24 hours of free access before you have to pay, but hey, free stuff!

You'll have to download a program called GoBoingo from the company's website to get online, but it's not much of a hassle. After your free session is over, you can use the same program to reconnect to any Boingo-managed hotspot for $8 a day.

Given how prevalent those are in bigger airports, this could certainly come in handy over the long holiday weekend.

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Airport WiFi: Boingo Giving You 15 Minutes Free

May 2, 2008 at 12:05 PM | 3 Comments

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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· Airport WiFi Map [Jaunted]
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