Title: Travel Much? WiFi Hotspots Are Everywhere Now

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Do you travel with your WiFi-enhanced PDA, laptop or Tablet PC and need access to the Internet? The good news is that there are now more than 56,000 hotspots around the world, according to JiWire, a provider of hotspot information located on the Web at <www.jiwire.com/>.

Hotspots are wireless access points that the public can use to get onto the Internet. Most require a payment, but some are free.

The most wired countries are the United States with 22,081 sites. The United States is followed by the U.K. (9,356), Germany (5,713), France, (3,239) Japan (2,197), Switzerland (1,311), Italy (1,111), Spain (1,073), Canada (826) and Australia (800). London, Tokyo and New York are the three most WiFi enabled cities, followed by Paris, Singapore, Hong Kong, Berlin, Chicago, San Francisco and Seattle.

Find hotspots by searching JiWire by address or airport code, city, zip or postal code or use the quicklinks to hotspots by type: free hotspots, hotels, cafes and airports. Other places with WiFi can be found on Google's local search at <http://local.google.com/>. Enter Wi-Fi in the first box, and the ZIP code in the second.

Additional sites for information on hotspots include:

• <www.wi-fihotspotlist.com/>


• <www.wififreespot.com/>


• <www.ezgoal.com/hotspots/>