Google to Philadelphia airport, others: Contact us about free Wi-Fi

Google is offering free Wi-Fi at 47 U.S. airports this holiday season, as we tweeted earlier today.
The gift, which runs until Jan. 15 and is in partnership with Boingo Wireless, Advanced Wireless Group, Airport Marketing Income and others, includes dozens of well-known airports, but there’s a noticeable lapse.
Of the country’s ten busiest airports, only the McCarran International Airport in Las Vegas is currently participating. Of the top 20, just four — Boston, Charlotte, Orlando and Vegas — have begun offering the Google deal. See all the participating airports here.
“The airports involved do cover many significant metro areas already,” said Google spokesman Andrew Pederson.
Philadelphia International Airport is not in the number, but spokeswoman Phyllis VanIstendal says the airport already offers free wireless Internet year-round to those with a valid student ID and to the general public on weekends. She said she was unsure if the Philadelphia airport has any intentions of trying to partner with Google.

“We’re not restricting the promotion to our specific group of airports for any particular reason, however the participating airports — and our carrier partners — have been very willing to work with us to make this happen.” Pederson wrote in an e-mail to Technically Philly. “If there are other airports who are interested in potentially participating in any future programs, they should contact us at freeholidaywifi@google.com.”
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