Yeah - I noticed free WiFi at McD's in London too!
On Sun, 27 Feb 2005 17:32:33 +0100, Andy Carvin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ever since arriving in Paris yesterday, I've been baffled by the state > of wi-fi here. When I checked into my hotel, I found a little wi-fi sign > on the counter, which was good news, since I selected the hotel > partially because Hotels.com said the place had wireless Internet > access. But then I turned on my computer and opened my Web browser, only > to discover that the hotel had the nerve of charging 25 euros a day for > the privilege. That's more than 30 bucks to us currency-challenged > Americans, which is sheer lunacy. > > So I briefly sunk into a cyber funk and wondered if I'd be able to > tolerate being offline. Of course, the answer was no, so I started to > download emails from my cell phone. Granted, I bought the phone for that > very purpose, but the download charges while traveling international can > be a couple of cents a byte, and that can add up when you get as much > email as I do. > > This afternoon, though, while I was strolling down Boulevard St-Germain > on the way back to my hotel, I noticed a little sign in the window of > the local MacDonalds. "WI-FI ICI," it said. And below that, in somewhat > smaller print, "gratis." Yep, Ronald McDonald has gotten into the > municipal wi-fi business -- at least for a few days. It turns out the > wi-fi is part of a promotion announcing wi-fi at French McDonalds, but > it's free only for a short time. Fortunately, I'm only here for a short > time as well, so that suits me just fine. So in between touring the > sites and soaking up the Parisian joie de vivre, I'll be soaking up the > bandwidth at the local Mickey Dee's..... -andy > -- > ----------------------------------- > Andy Carvin > Program Director > EDC Center for Media & Community > acarvin @ edc . org > http://www.digitaldivide.net > http://www.tsunami-info.org > Blog: http://www.andycarvin.com > ----------------------------------- > _______________________________________________ > DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list > [email protected] > http://mailman.edc.org/mailman/listinfo/digitaldivide > To unsubscribe, send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word UNSUBSCRIBE > in the body of the message. > -- ________________________________________ Jacqueline Morris [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.jacquelinemorris.com 868-680-1895 _________________________________________ _______________________________________________ DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.edc.org/mailman/listinfo/digitaldivide To unsubscribe, send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word UNSUBSCRIBE in the body of the message.
