San Francisco International AirPort (SFO) should announce today full Wi-Fi coverage: The service, initiated in April 2003 by T-Mobile HotSpot, should now be available throughout all terminals. When I was in SFO a few months ago, I found access (for free at the time) in an Alaska Airlines gate that had previously been a dead zone.
What's missing from this news, however, is when T-Mobile will transform SFO into a vendor-neutral host that resells access to other networks. When the deal was first announced with great fanfare and with many public officials, the statement was clear: other hotspot operators would be able to pay T-Mobile for access at a sensible rate. Since then, nada.
You'd think T-Mobile would be using this as a leveraging tool for negotiating roaming with other hotspots operators who have the concession at other airports.