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Story: Gartner: Business travellers snubbing Wi-Fi

Posted by: Robert Machin (Thursday 8 September 2005, 5:06 PM)

I'm amazed that more business travellers aren't using WiFi. Cost varies wildly, but even at the high end seems negligible compared to the old days of dial-up over copper, watching a hotel phone bill stack up while your email crawled in. And it's increasingly possible to roam with a WiFi subscription - I used my BT Openzone subscription all over Paris recently, accessing through the Orange network of hotspots and it felt awfully like free access. Coming off the Eurostar at Waterloo on my way home I logged on again for a few minutes and picked up a couple of hours of email, enough for me to work on on the way home to Hampshire - to me this is great and gives me all the access I need when travelling without the hassle and cost of a 3G data card. WiFi may well be my all-time favourite technology - it's fast, easy works out of the box and is amazingly consistent. But I guess some people are never happy...