From a recent trip: Copenhagen's airport has a wireless area in the regular waiting area, near the cafe and so forth. It provides 802.11b wi fi networking, and binds credit card charges to DHCP in a nifty way. The main flaw: no SMTP service available, which is perhaps understandable, but defeats the usefulness of using one's laptop considerably. (An aside: as this sort of thing becomes more not less common, someone should really set up an account-based SMTP service. It would be incredibly useful. Right now the SMTP user interface is attached to a notion of e-mail accounts, when it should be attached to interface configurations. As in, my outbound e-mail server changes, not according to my inbound POP service, but according to whether my laptop is in the office, on a dial-up, etc.) Prague's airport has a combination casino/Internet access place. The computers (running on NT) are in a separate space from the casino part, and there is lots of room on the countertops for spreading out papers and such.

1) pay phone similar devices in quite a few airports, but they are expensive and not very handy

My experience is that these are not uncommon in U.S. and Canadian airports, and can be both cheap and handy. Before travelling I usually add phone numbers for my access provider in each city whose airport I expect to spend time in, and where the pay phone jacks can be used -- they can be tricky to get the hang of, and I've given up on some (Ameritech springs to mind) -- they allow Internet access for the cost of a local phone call. Which pay phones now seem to be metering in much of the U.S., but still not bad. cheers Bram -- / Bram Dov Abramson / babramson@telegeography.com / / Director of Internet Research / TeleGeography, Inc. / / tel: +1 202 741 0047 (new numbers) / fax: +1 202 741 0021 (we've moved)