Charging for WiFi how out dated

There should be free wifi for everyone at every airport in Ireland. its a smart economy run by greedy feckers.

Great idea five years ago

You can walk around Paris and there is free wifi everywhere. F off eircom! Jesus, between the censoring of internet by government and this crap and everything else coming down the line……

Why can’t pubs and restaurants have free wifi for their patrons in this country?

btw, there is free wifi at Kerry airport :)

This country is so shortsighted by charging for wifi. When holidaying abroad I always choose to to visit locations or hotels with free wifi avoiding the locations that don’t have access for free.

There has been free WiFi at Cork Airport for years. The sooner the DAA leave Cork run itself the better.

what a joke! the fact that this is even news says it all!

Is it 2005 again? Keep up DAA, it’s free in most international airports

I have the wifi in knock,on the bus from Galway to Dublin Airport and at the time could not get the wifi in Dublin airport now I know why I have also used wifi in numerous coffee shops and now when I heard about the wifi in Dublin Airport I was thrilled till I read that they will be charging. I would do without it rather than pay

This is just a cheap way for Eircom to get more customers and make more money, that’s all they care about.

As if this is a great idea? Duh. Should have been done years ago, like during the dotcom bubble, at least.

Although charging €1 for a flat rate isn’t too bad, but I’m curious how they plan on charging that.

A little kiosk that spits out random wifi passwords to payers would be a smart idea. Can only be used once.

Knowing DAA, if it was “free” they’d tack on another fiver to the already mad airport charges.

What are they talking about?

There’s been wifi at Dublin Airport for years (T1 at least)

Eircom? well I’ll have to download my plane entertainment at home then

The Dublin Airport Authority has partnered with DAA?

Lets all go to Dublin airport and use there free wifi to download our music films and software.

About time!! Until now there was wifi access in dublin airport. This announcement makes things so much better and cheaper for all users of dublin airport..free 10 mins and €1 for the remaining 24hours is far better than the €5 per hour it was before!! So everybody wins if your an Eircom customer or not

Most international airports that I’ve been in you have to pay. Most US airports it’s expensive enough. A token euro fee I think is ok. Free would be better obviously. Definitely a few years too late…

Welcome to the 21st century Dublin Airport. Pity most of us have no use for it now, especially with all you can eat data.

They have to charge to pay for the board’s junkets and the gm wages.
Screw the customer.what new with the Daa ,surprised? No.
Eircom surprised? Not atall.

They already have Wifi! Have done for years!!

Shocking that Dublin airport, who recent opened a ‘state of the art, modern, progressive’ new terminal.
It’s these small minded, small fee attempts at making money that leave the country truly behind other European states.
Free WiFi should be standard, perhaps a slow speed of 2MB, just enough to check email etc. If you want the faster speeds then perhaps then charge for it.

Sadly another step backwards

Confused why this is even a news article. There has been pay for wifi at Dublin airport for years

groundbreaking.

Any one with eircom broadband that i can borrow an account number off.

Just as most cities in the world are rolling out metropolitan free wifi access we get all excited about paid airport wifi. Sad

Not free at Amsterdam airport & Lima airport in Peru which I was there few months ago!

15 quid for 24 hours connection to it is absolutely criminal!

They had free eircom wifi there for years WEP WEP WEP WEP, every part of the airport. And no passwords on their netopia routers either, still at the default range of 192.168.1.254 Only in ireland

When I see eircom wifi I just think can’t be bothered too much hassle trying to figure out a password and trying to guess how much it will cost how do I pay are there extra charges etc and nobody seems to ever know the password (think Starbucks ) what a load of crap.
Dublin airport take note when people see eircom they think rip off merchants the word eircom in Ireland has the same effect as the word politician on the public it’s hated by the Irish.

Tip if you are visiting Dundrum town centre visit Douglas and kaldi restaurant for your lunch they cleverly have free wifi and no stupid password to worry about your device just picks up the signal.
I always use them for my lunch because I believe in rewarding those that try harder.
And avoid all the other restaurants that can’t be bothered to consider there patrons modern needs.

It should be free. Any idea how you pay this €1 charge to Eircom/DAA? It’s more hassle. Embarrassed by this.

@Brien.You may fly into airports the same size of dublin and charge less landing fees.But the DAA is covering the debt of cork,dublin and keeping shannon alive and having to pay for the running of the airports and fireservice.
If you can tell me how they can pay for all of the above with out landing fees i would love to know and im sure the board of the daa would as well.
Next time a plane has to make an emergency landing just think its your landing fees that pay the wages of the fireservice

My daughter mentioned free WiFi on the Dub-Cork train Monday