Kein Freies Mittagessen: Free Hotspots in Europe
Tech reporter Dwight Silverman writes from Europe of the lack of easily found free Wi-Fi: If you look hard enough in continental Europe, you can find Wi-Fi that you don’t have to pay for, but it’s far more of a struggle than in the US, where free Wi-Fi has flipped over in the last year or so to being a free amenity.
He didn’t quite have a comedy of errors, but Dwight found that staying connected took a lot more effort, time, and money in Germany than in his travels around the US. He notes he could have dropped into McDonald’s and Starbucks for some free Wi-Fi, but what’s the point of going abroad to patronize businesses you have at home?
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