Saturday, January 01, 2005

Free Wireless at Las Vegas Airport

Are you heading for Las Vegas in the future? Well, you should know that you can now connect to the Internet with your laptop for free when you are in the Las Vegas Airport. The McCarran Airport, which is among the 15 busiest airports in the world, is the first of these large airports to offer the service at no cost to travelers.

There are several regional airports around the country that offer the free service, such as my local airport in Moses Lake. However, the big ones all charge a fee to use their wireless services.

Several wireless hot-spot providers such as Wayport Inc. and T-Mobile U.S.A. Inc. offer Wi-Fi at multiple airports. Customers have a range of payment options ranging from $6 to $10 for a single connection to $30 to $50 per month for frequent fliers, depending on the contract agreement.

Actually, Las Vegas did consider ways to charge customers for using their wireless, but airport officials said they could not find any revenue models that seemed fair to passengers.

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