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Russell Shaw 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.
John Yunker John Yunker is president of Byte Level Research. He closely tracks emerging wireless technologies and their impact on consumers and carriers alike. Over the years he has written a number of major reports on technologies such as Wi-Fi, WiMAX and cellular technologies.
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Unwired
January 10, 2005
Hotel Wi-Fi Outlook: Ubiquity to AmenityEmail This EntryPrint This Entry
Posted by John Yunker

This from the folks at Hotel Online:

"Wireless HSIA continued its meteoric adoption rate, with ever more hotel chains adopting it as a brand standard, usually on a free-to-guest basis. It's not clear how much longer the hold-outs can still charge for the service, especially as they don't seem to provide any significantly better quality, speed or reliability in the connection."

I agree. The "hold-outs" will charge for Wi-Fi for at least another year or two. In doing so, they will slowly lose their loyal customers to upstart hotels who embrace free Wi-Fi as a competitive amenity. When the hold-outs awaken, they will have lost market share in exchange for minimal revenues.


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