WiFi musings

On my way back home yesterday I had some time at the train station in Paris, and tried to connect to the local WiFi hotspot. Worked, but just like the hotel it landed me on a screen asking me to pay for access. This one wanted 10 Euro ($13) for 1 hour of internet access. I would need to be really desperate to pay that.

The only good thing is that in Belgium I'm using Belgacom as my internet provider, and that allows me to use their hotspots for free, until end of September. And as Belgacom is the former monopoly telephone company, it has the most hotspots in the country.

But in the long run I hope that hotels and the like in Europe are going to offer free WiFi as customer service, just like some hotels in the US already do. 10 Euro for an hour or two is simply too much. I can't believe they get all that much business with that sort of prices.
- posted by Tobold @ 7:12 PM Permanent Link