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LAX: Look for Wi-Fi coming soon to LAX--and it will be free

By Chris Erskine
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Los Angeles times staff writer

Following the lead of many airports large and small, LAX management has approved a proposal to allow free Wi-Fi, starting as early as this summer. Current fees start at $6.

Under the new plan, passengers will be able to use basic Wi-Fi services for free for sessions lasting less than 45 minutes. Passengers also will be able to choose to pay for premium and uninterrupted Wi-Fi service for a 24-hour period, officials say.

The Board of Airport Commissioners Monday approved the $663,333 two-year concession agreement plus a one-year extension option with Advanced Wireless Group LLC to provide the free Wi-Fi service.

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The agreement calls for the company to upgrade, operate, and maintain the public wireless Internet system at the airport for minimum annual guaranteed revenues to Los Angeles World Airports of $283,333 in the first year, $380,000 in the second year, and $420,000 in the third option year, if exercised.

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Chris Erskine

Chris Erskine is a nationally known humor columnist and editor who retired from the Los Angeles Times in 2020. Previously he wrote for the Sports, Travel and Saturday sections and edited with the paper’s features staff. As an editor, he has been a part of two Pulitzer Prize-winning teams at The Times (for his graphics work on the Northridge quake and the North Hollywood bank robbery). He is best known to readers for his weekly humor pieces on life in suburban Los Angeles. His latest book, “Daditude,” released in 2018, is a collection of his favorite Times columns on fatherhood. He has written two other books, “Man of the House” and “Surviving Suburbia,” which reached the Los Angeles Times bestseller list. The Chicago native has also worked for papers in New Orleans and Miami.

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