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Stay connected while you travel with atlarge.com
New site charts airport internet access

By Gemma Simpson

Published: Friday 01 December 2006

New website atlarge.com offers business travellers user-generated information about how to stay connected at commercial airports.

The site is written by business travellers for business travellers, giving them an unbiased and up-to-the minute forum about where to find the best internet connectivity in the world's 2,400 or commercial airports.

Tech-savvy travellers entering atlarge.com can select an airport and read about other's experiences at these hubs. They can also write about their own experiences and rate amenities such as wi-fi availability, the number of powerpoints and even how comfortable they feel in the airport.

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Tony Hallett, site director of atlarge.com (also editor of silicon.com), said although some amateur and service provider sites inform business travellers about airport connectivity, they are neither user-generated nor as comprehensive as atlarge.com.

Hallett said: "The best way to help business travellers get information on how to stay connected at an airport is for them to help each other."

Some airport websites provide this connectivity information but it might not be in a language a traveller understands or the information could be, intentionally or unintentionally, incorrect whereas users will be more honest, Hallett added.

Posts are listed chronologically and also ranked by other users so any out-of-date or incorrect information will slip to the sidelines.

The next steps for atlarge.com would be to work with airport websites and expand the information about connectivity in non-commercial airports, hotels and public areas, Hallett added.

atlarge.com is produced by CNET Networks UK, the publisher of silicon.com.