{"id":214,"date":"2004-04-23T16:10:54","date_gmt":"2004-04-23T16:10:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zmetro.com\/?p=214"},"modified":"2004-04-23T16:10:54","modified_gmt":"2004-04-23T16:10:54","slug":"albuquerques_enlightened_airport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=214","title":{"rendered":"Albuquerque&#8217;s Enlightened Airport"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.cabq.gov\/airport\/images\/welcome.jpg\"><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cabq.gov\/airport\/\">ABQ<\/a> or Albuquerque&#8217;s Sunport features free wireless internet access (WiFi).   This enlightened approach makes it very easy for passengers and visitors to check email, surf the web or use a VPN (Virtual Private Network), things not possible at our local airport (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.co.dane.wi.us\/airport\/\">MSN<\/a>).  I find it astonishing that a supposedly tech savvy area has non existant airport connectivity.<br \/>\n<b>UPDATE<\/b>: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.co.dane.wi.us\/exec\/chief.htm\">Sharyn Wisniewski<\/a> in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.co.dane.wi.us\/exec\/exechome.htm\">County Executive Falk&#8217;s<\/a> office left me a voice mail today that the Madison Airport will be accepting bids shortly for a paid WiFi service, to be installed this summer.    Better than the current situation, I find Albuquerque&#8217;s tech friendly approach to be superior (just works, vs digging out a credit card, signing up and going through the login process).  The County should rethink this plan (we&#8217;re not talking about much money &#8211; I would imagine that the administration of a 3rd party contract is more expensive than installing 5 DSL lines with wireless access points).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ABQ or Albuquerque&#8217;s Sunport features free wireless internet access (WiFi). This enlightened approach makes it very easy for passengers and visitors to check email, surf the web or use a VPN (Virtual Private Network), things not possible at our local airport (MSN). I find it astonishing that a supposedly tech savvy area has non existant [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=214"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}