Internet Accessibility Weirdness

Accessing the internet is weird. You'd think that any major area of population would be fully internet-accessible... but noooooooooooooo.

In the United States, almost every non-crappy hotel has internet access in the room. It might be wired access, or wireless access, or both. It might be free or you might have to pay for it. But it will be there. However, almost every US airport I have flown through recently did not offer internet access. And don't even think about US train stations. One exception was the Vegas McCarran airport, which actually offered free, unlimited wireless access.

Contrast this with certain parts of Europe. Every airport and train station had wireless internet access. But none of the hotels we stayed in in Italy or Spain had internet access. Do they just have very little business travelers? Or do business travelers not work from the Hotel room? Why do they think people on trains want to use the internet but not people at hotels? Very weird. I will point out that German hotels very internet accessible... in fact, Germany was more like the US than any other European country I've been to.

In the "information age", it can still be very difficult and frustrating to get connected. Why do we find free internet all over the US, but very expensive internet in Europe? I guess they have to fund their crazy socialist 15% unemployment schemes somehow.