British Wireless Net Takes Off with Heathrow Launch
In the last week, I've been in four different airports, and discovered that only one of them had WiFi access (via Wayport). I've been stunned at how few airports offer WiFi by now. I keep hearing plans and discussions, but there hasn't been very much actual implementation. In fact, it's apparently so rare, that it's worthy of a news article when London's Heathrow finally gets WiFi throughout the terminal, thanks in part, to Intel, who is desperately trying to give people reasons to buy machines with their Centrino chip. Apparently, Intel doesn't think as highly of the folks in the airports I've been passing through.
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