Airports Are on the Wrong Side in WiFi Fight
I’m starting to understand why airport WiFi still costs so much — Airports are setting up sweetheart deals with individual vendors, bullying airlines who try to set up WiFi for customers in their terminals, and ignoring the law:
….. It’s been over two years since the FCC stated in no uncertain terms that airports cannot dictate to airlines how they can offer WiFi. Only the FCC has the authority to regulate the airwaves, and no “landlord” can tell you not to. Yet, for some reason, Boston-Logan International Airport (run by Massport) simply won’t give up. Despite the FCC ruling, they tried to tell Continental Airlines it couldn’t offer free WiFi at the airport.
….. The FCC had already made it perfectly clear that the airport can’t tell the airlines what to do, so it’s no surprise to hear that the FCC is about to explain to Massport that they weren’t kidding about that in the past, and that Massport really needs to back off and let Continental offer whatever it wants.
Maybe this will take more of airport WiFi into the land of the free, or at least down to a price that can be justified.
Columbus (CMH) has free wifi throughout all terminals from the airport itself. Kudos to CMH
Last time I was in Dayton they did not have any wifi at all free or not, hopefully that’s changed by now.
CVG is free if you are a Cincinnati Bell customer I think. Which I am not and that always annoyed me.
Comment by dave — September 26, 2006 @ 8:39 am
#1, Last time I was at Dayton it had two stations in each wing. One station in each wing had an Ethernet cable sticking out that you could plug your laptop into. The other station in each wing was an actual pretty clunky computer you could use to get to the Internet. They were both free, but that’s all there was (no wifi).
I was just at the library tonight and you can’t go WiFi in there unless you’re a Cincy Bell customer. This bites.
Comment by TBlumer — September 26, 2006 @ 10:49 pm