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Thursday, August 4, 2005

Boston airport trying to kill free WiFi

From the folks at Metroblogging Boston:
Continential has a Wi-Fi antenna at their frequent flyer lounge and it lets people get free Wi-Fi at Logan. This, of course, pisses off the folks at Logan who want you to fork up dough to access their pay as you surf network.
The folks on the Boston WAG list have a petition going around which will hopefully bug the FCC enough that we can get what we want! More in the extended entry, English bad today, need more coffee.
Continental Airlines is fighting for their right to offer free WiFi (info below) at Boston's Logan Airport.
To support free WiFi at Logan Airport and to prevent a chilling precedent in FCC policy, please submit a public comment to the FCC. This PDF has instructions for submitting comments, both by e-mail and snail mail.

Link (Thanks, Jason!)

posted by Cory Doctorow at 12:41:12 PM permalink | Other blogs' comments

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