Maybe it would be too expensive for Marriott to buy outright, but not for some equipment manufacture that can make up the money in licensing fees. That's what

Maybe it would be too expensive for Marriott to buy outright, but not for some equipment manufacture that can make up the money in licensing fees. That's what I was referring to -- someone like Cisco could acquire a chunk of spectrum, license it out for free for client side chipsets (call it 802.11x or something), and charge venues like Marriott for the base stations (and of course geographically control them so there is no overlap / interferience). Kind of like how Motorola owns the frequencies for some of their 2-way radios.