Thursday, April 12th, 2007...6:23 pm

The Net’s Not Free Here

I’m in Dallas Texas this week. — where everything’s bigger. The weather’s great, the food’s tasty, and things are going pretty smoothly at my customer’s site. Dallas hotelBut either I’m spoiled or I don’t properly appreciate the economic differences between hotels here and those in Columbus GA.

Over the past 8 weeks or so I’ve spent many nights at three different hotels, all of which provided Internet access for free.

In the hotel here they want $10/day. Jim G. tells me, via Twitter, that his hotel wants “$15 and change,” so I guess I shouldn’t complain too much. I wonder however, with the ‘net becoming more & more pervasive every day, how much longer hotels will be able to collect fees like this.

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  • Geren
    April 13th, 2007 at 8:43 pm

    We’re getting so as that we try real hard to not stay at hotels that charge for internet service. So far, I’ve only had to pay one time, and that was $7.95/day, down in Northern Virginia.

  • Clay
    April 16th, 2007 at 12:37 pm

    Maybe I’m just unfortunate, but I’ve had to pay the last two times I’ve traveled. They were both $10 a day in San Ramon, CA and Chicago.

  • Rick Klau
    April 22nd, 2007 at 10:06 pm

    This was the reason I ended up getting the verizon broadband wireless card: in one month of heavy travel, I racked up well over $100 in Internet access fees at airports and hotels. I pay Verizon $79/month, and get full-time Internet access (on the train to/from work, in airports, hotels, at conferences, etc.) – a much better bargain.