It's good PR: If you can check your e-mail on your Wi-Fi enabled laptop or PDA while visiting a city

The beauty of Wi-Fi networking is its mobility. It gives you the freedom to wander far from home and still have a solid connection to the Internet. You can find Wi-Fi hotspots around the globe, with the United States, Europe, and Asia leading the way as they add thousands of new access points every year.
Second to your hotel room, where do you spend most of your time during a business trip? It's probably not in the meeting or at the conference. More likely, it's the airports you pass through, especially with the increased security that forces you to arrive earlier and stay longer. Of course, layovers add to the fray.
That's why it's a good idea to know, before dallas hotel meeting space you leave on your trip, which airports offer what Wi-Fi services. Some may offer free access, a combination of limited free access and commercial access, or commercial dallas hotel meeting space access only.
As one example, Sprint PCS Wi-Fi offers service in the Kansas City, Salt Lake City, and Louisville airports. It charges $9.95 for 24 hours or $49.95 per month for unlimited service. If you're stuck in one of these airports for several hours, ten bucks may seem like a bargain as you pull out your laptop to check your e-mail.
Chicago O'Hare International. About 15 or so hotspots dallas hotel meeting space are spread across the airport, mostly in individual airlines' frequent-flyer lounges. T-Mobile, Telia HomeRun, and iPass are among the service providers.
Now it's almost expected, especially among mid- to high-end hotels, that you'll have wireless Internet access from your room and possibly the lobby, too. For example, these large hotel chains offer some services:
Marriott. More than 1,200 of Marriott's hotels dallas hotel meeting space have wireless Internet access. Hotels include Marriott Hotels & Resorts, Renaissance Hotels & Resorts, Courtyard, Residence Inn, TownePlace Suites, Fairfield Inn, and SpringHill Suites. Access is available in hotel lobbies, meeting rooms, and public spaces.
Sheraton. Owner Starwood Hotels & Resorts has Wi-Fi connectivity in more than 150 Sheraton, Westin, and W hotels in the United States. It also provides dallas hotel meeting space access to about 40 properties in 10 countries and regions across Asia Pacific.
Omni. More than 30 U.S. Omni hotels provide Wi-Fi access in guest rooms. dallas hotel meeting space More hotels will be added, dallas hotel meeting space and guests without a wireless card can rent "wireless bridges" though the front desk, which means you rent a USB access point, and then plug it into your laptop's USB port.
Best Western. Yep, you read that right. Even the lower end of the hotel industry is embracing Wi-Fi. And how: Best Western plans to install wireless access in 2,300 properties throughout North America.
Microtel Inns & Suites. More than 200 of the chain's hotels offer free Wi-Fi access. (The deal's even better: They offer free local calls and free long-distance calls within the continental U.S. Could this be the beginning of the end of the industry's notorious guest phone bills?)
A new movement is equipping many city centers with Wi-Fi access. The Wi-Fi service dallas hotel meeting space areas, called city clouds or hot zones, are a way for cities to differentiate themselves from other business and tourism centers. In many cases, the hot zones are dual use, with police and fire workers using it along with residents and visitors.
dallas hotel meeting space It's good PR: If you can check your e-mail on your Wi-Fi enabled laptop or PDA while visiting a city's dallas hotel meeting space downtown, aren't you more likely to remember your visit and have good feelings about the hospitality? Covering several or more blocks beats isolated hotspots at coffee houses and other limited locations.
Washington, D.C. You can get free Wi-Fi access from the front of the Supreme Court, the Library of Congress, and the Capitol visitors' site. The nonprofit group deploying the network hopes to have a hot zone stretch from Capitol Hill to the Washington Monument soon.
Seattle, Washington. If you're sleepless in this city, sometime in the future you might be able to access what city officials hope will be border-to-border wireless Internet access. Of course, this city has what seems like a limitless number of coffee shops ready to provide you with Wi-Fi coverage in the meantime.
Grand Haven, Michigan. Just down the road from your humble author's abode, this small city along Lake Michigan has a wireless network dallas hotel meeting space with 6 square miles of coverage. Wi-Fi access is available 20 miles into Lake Michigan. (Yes, that's over the water!) Residential service begins at $20 per month.