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Originally Posted by pilotbob
WiFi hot spots at most places here like cafe's book stores etc is pretty much free.
BOb
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Think outside the US, Free Wifi is pretty rare.
Having tried to find a free Wifi in the UK, India, Egypt, Lebanon, etc its been difficult to impossible.
In the UK, I've never been able to find free wifi in most major cities outside a few select cafe's and Pubs which use it as a marketing gimmick, but its usually not convenient to try to find them. Pay wifi on the other hand is plenty full, with BT and others having peppered most major areas with coverage. Pricing however is awful, usually £4-12 for an hour / £8-24 per day and there being no rhyme or reason for pricing or connectivity speed. I used to actually find it cheaper to subscribe to a US based service (Boingo) for unlimited monthly access to most of those spots, then subscribing to a UK based plan (Rip off Britain)
Its the same situation in Egypt now, where most of the free wifi spots have been taken over by a couple of large aggregator's like Mobinil, and Pricing has gotten much more expensive.
India is hit and miss, with some places charging astronomical prices, while others offering it for free. But the hard part is finding a Wifi spot, and with no 3G unlike the UK and Egypt you have to use what you can get.
So, in many places, ovepriced 3G is often the only option
