Voting Question: do you have to pay to surf the web/check email on the ipod touch?

I don’t understand. This is all new to me. When you have a cell phone or a ipod touch that can check email at a WiFi location how do you connect to it ? I mean, do you have to pay for that service? I was told that with a WiFi laptop or cell phone or palm or pda or whatever thing you using that you can buy airtime cards or something or some kind of 3G card that lets you get on the internet? I don’t understand any of this. how do you pay for it, who do you pay, and how much does it cost?
I have the internet at home through my cable company, so I pay them to have the internet. So I dont understand when you go to a coffee shop forexample, and you have a lap top or a Ipod touch, who do you pay to get on the internet?

I hope this makes sense to someone out there… I know I sound stupid… I’m not stupid but I am old school.

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