Google announced today that the company is picking up the tab for your Wi-Fi at major airports across the United States starting today. The company is working with Boingo Wireless, Advanced Wireless Group, Airport Marketing Income and other providers to pay for the otherwise pricey airport Wi-Fi until January 15.
The 47 airports include Las Vegas, San Jose, Boston, Baltimore, Burbank, Houston, Indianapolis, Seattle, Miami, Ft. Lauderdale, Orlando, St. Louis and Charlotte. The total roster of airports covers about 35% of all US passengers, according to Google.
The Burbank and Seattle airports will continue to offer the free Google Wi-Fi indefinitely.
I'll bet the sign in page will have a bunch of google sign up offers.
by Anonymous (not verified) on 11/10/09 at 11:55 am |reply
Actually - Free lunch and then some
"once they log on to networks in any of the participating airports, travelers will have the option [of making] a donation to Engineers Without Borders, the One Economy Corporation, or the Climate Savers Computing Initiative. Google will match the donations made across all the networks up to $250,000"
not to mention - google doesn't have sign-up offers. sounds like somebody needs to stop using yahoo
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Sidekick: The Good News & the Bad News Either way you look at it Microsoft Data Center management did not follow standards or best practices in this failure. In which case it makes me wonder more about the outsourcing of corporate data much less personal data.
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I'll bet the sign in page will have a bunch of google sign up offers.Actually - Free lunch and then some
"once they log on to networks in any of the participating airports, travelers will have the option [of making] a donation to Engineers Without Borders, the One Economy Corporation, or the Climate Savers Computing Initiative. Google will match the donations made across all the networks up to $250,000"not to mention - google doesn't have sign-up offers. sounds like somebody needs to stop using yahoo