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November 23, 2004
Wingate Inns Offers Free Wi-Fi
Posted by John Yunker
In 1999, Wingate Inns became one of the first hotel chains (if not the first) to offer free wired broadband access.
Today, the chain announced that it now also offers free Wi-Fi in all guest rooms and lobbies. This service is now live and available in 138 properties throughout the US and Canada. LodgeNet is the network provider.
The company tells me that between 20% and 30% of all guests have been using the free wired service; it will be interesting to see if usage increases now that Wi-Fi is on tap.
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Russell Shaw is a specialist in mobile computing, telephony, networking and covers these fields regularly for numerous print and online publications. Russ writes the popular IP Telephony blog on ZDNet and contributes regularly to The Industry Standard blog as well. Author of seven books, Russ' latest book is Wireless Networking Made Easy.
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