WiFi Corked

Having been edged out of the race to provide exclusive WiFi access at Dublin Airport, BT (oops, nearly typed Esat there for a minute) has wired up Cork Airport for wireless internet. BT now has more than 250 sites around Ireland, second behind Eircom if you count all the big E's phonebox hotspots.

Much of the evidence worldwide (and now in Ireland) suggests, though, that paid-for WiFi access is doomed to die a slow death in the face of free internet offered by many businesses as a value-added service.