Attention all wired travelers!

By On May 7, 2008 · 8 Comments

Photo by Jace (Creative Commons)

For those of you who travel fully wired, the airport internet service provider, Boingo, is offering a promotion for iPhone and iTouch owners: 15 minutes of free wireless service in exchange for watching a 15 second advertisement. Participating airports are listed below:

United Kingdom: EDI, GLA, LHR, LGW, SOU, STN
North America: AZO, BNA, BWI, DTW, EWR, HOU, IAH, JFK, LGA, MDW, MEM, MKE, MSP,
OAK, OKC, ORD, SDF, SJU, SLC, STL, YOW, YYZ.

The offer has no set end-date.

 
 

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  • Ian

    That's pretty cool – although my dealings with Boingo are less than amazing. They have this nasty habit of billing you multiple times if you access their network from two different airports…but in the same day. Sneaky sneaky…

  • http://www.ianmack.com Ian

    That’s pretty cool – although my dealings with Boingo are less than amazing. They have this nasty habit of billing you multiple times if you access their network from two different airports…but in the same day. Sneaky sneaky…

  • Eva Holland

    Hey Ian – Yeah, I've never used Boingo myself, but just in general I've been underwhelmed by the reliability of these types of services so far. I suppose it's a work in progress…

  • Eva Holland

    Hey Ian – Yeah, I’ve never used Boingo myself, but just in general I’ve been underwhelmed by the reliability of these types of services so far. I suppose it’s a work in progress…

  • Jeremy Pepper

    @Ian – there was a problem with that, and it has been fixed. If you flag it to our customer service people, they do refund the double-billing. Sorry you had that experience.

    @Eva Holland – we test both our network and our partner networks so that they hit certain guidelines that we have in place for our customers. With 100K hotspots worldwide, we strive to bring reliable and speedy WiFi connections.

  • ian

    Thanks for the follow up Jeremy. Appreciate that you guys got it fixed.

  • http://www.boingo.com Jeremy Pepper

    @Ian – there was a problem with that, and it has been fixed. If you flag it to our customer service people, they do refund the double-billing. Sorry you had that experience.

    @Eva Holland – we test both our network and our partner networks so that they hit certain guidelines that we have in place for our customers. With 100K+ hotspots worldwide, we strive to bring reliable and speedy WiFi connections.

  • http://www.bravenewtraveler.com ian

    Thanks for the follow up Jeremy. Appreciate that you guys got it fixed.