I am in the same WiFi boat

I have written about WiFi before and I am beginning to see the logic of the free service. Steve at ASK STEVE.COM encapsulates my views in this post:

"What is the secret to Wi-Fi success? Give it away. So suggests an article in the September 2003 issue of Wired magazine. It seems that there hasn't been such a flurry of excitement, activity and investment since the dawn of the commercial Internet. Some see Wi-Fi as the answer to the tech industry's post-bubble doldrums. Others see it as another bubble ”” and predict that it will burst much sooner than the last.

Personal experience to date gives me mixed feelings on the matter. I've been a subscriber to T-Mobile's HotSpot service since it became available, shelling out $30 per month for the privilege of jumping online at T1 speed at nearly any Starbucks I can find. And I do. I probably use it at least 20 days per week for up to three hours a day -- sometimes more. That comes our to around $1.50 per day and well under a dollar per hour of usage. I wouldn't want to pay that much for my connection at home, but I can't take my DSL connection with me on the road. So do I feel it's worth the price? I'd like it to be cheaper, but yes I do. Would I want to pay more than that? Probably not -- and that's the problem for other folks who want to charge for their Wi-Fi. And even for those who just want to give it away."