Chicago's O'Hare and Midway airports will have Wi-Fi next year, says airport authority: Like Boston, they've finally gotten off the dime and are issuing a request for proposals. Concourse is in the running as they have the broadest airport experience. However, the recent split between them and Wayport makes me wonder how much revenue they can attract in the near-term from users.
Without the Wayport partnership, which allowed Concourse to easily resell access to a number of other partners, including iPass, Boingo, Sprint PCS, and GRIC without direct relationships, Concourse now has to build a bridge to each of these firms. They did work with iPass as the gatekeeper for service in Minneapolis-St. Paul once, and that fell apart because of incompatible models in charging.