I received a recently cell phone bill for about $500 this week. 75% of the bill for data roaming charges came from when I was stuck in the airport for quite a few hours…pounding out emails, reading articles – some high volume activity but no heavy lifting like downloading a big file or anything like that.
I normally have a major issue with paying 9.95 for a few hours of wifi access but you’re snookered at an airport and can’t really pick up an unsecured network since there are no other businesses around.
But a significant amount of my time when i’m travelling is in the airport and I usually settle into a restaurant somewhere and start pounding out my todo’s. So I signed up for a month with Boingo and it didn’t seem to have an issue with multiple simultaneous logins (laptop and PDA). A year of Boing is $120 vs. $425 for 1 trip.
I’m going to get an account for my team and have them share a generic login when traveling instead of spending $2000 a month on 4 days of roaming.
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