The old adage “You Get What You Pay For” is really true when it comes to Free versus Paid for WiFi access.

Today, in the San Jose Business Journal a story broke how the airport there is going to try a combination of both free and paid WiFi service. That’s like one foot in, one foot out. You the hoky poky and let someone else figure it out.

As someone who has been on paid WiFi at hotspots since

the concept came to be, I love the notion of knowing what I’m getting. With free you just never know and what can you complain about? There wasn’t any consideration.

While that move is a halfway move by the San Jose Airport folks, I will still be using my roaming services from Boingo and my T-Mobile access. You see with both of those services the airports and I both know what we’re getting.

Original post by Andy Abramson