Electro-ramblings

In his blog at Silicon.com, Peter Cochrane notes that Wi-fi is beginning to be supplied for free in many European countries.

For the folks in North America this will all seem so very quaint but believe me, this is quite a revolution over on this side of the pond. People here are still paranoid about new technologies and what to do with them. They have been protecting wi-fi and restricting access like it was all a very scarce and expensive resource.

Anyone working via laptop in London and other European cities will know the frustration of finding Wi-fi at a reasonable rate. £10 an hour is not unusual in the big hotels, but a few chains are breaking the mould:

All over London there are posters advertising that the Radisson hotels provide free broadband globally.

Meanwhile CNet, which owns Silicon.com, has set up a nice website to help find those free Wi-fi networks at airports.