Re:European roaming charges will end in 2014
by skrause on Monday June 17, 2013 @09:52AM
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It seems that you haven't traveled to Germany yet. Public Wifi is barely available because of legal risks and hotels still try to charge you something like 10 euro for a day of internet access. When I went to Dublin in Ireland the situation was almost as bad.
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On the hotel WiFis, the rule of thumb seems to be that the more expensive the hotel, the costlier and crappier the WiFi will be.
Most cheap family-run hotels and all hostels have free and good WiFi.
Re:European roaming charges will end in 2014
by markhacker on Monday June 17, 2013 @11:48PM
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This. Hostels world-wide in allegedly 3rd world countries regularly have free wifi - and fast! Yet in the UK, Australia and New Zealand, first-world western countries, free-wifi is rubbish or non-existent on the whole.
Re:European roaming charges will end in 2014
by _delirium on Monday June 17, 2013 @09:59AM
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Interesting; I indeed haven't traveled to Germany. The internet situation has been pretty good in the eight European countries I've been to recently, though: Denmark, Sweden, Finland, Greece, Spain, Italy, the Netherlands, France. In a number of them the government even provides easy-to-find free internet (any library in Paris or Copenhagen, the main public spaces of Helsinki or Heraklion, and so on).
I believe the reasoning is solid: most high-priced consultants and business travelers stay at decent hotels, and the $10/day is an easily expensed item.
Sucks for those of us who also like higher end hotels for personal travel, though.