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This works because the free wifi makes the people want to stay there and spend money there, so in effect everybody pays for the wifi. In high-end hotels the rel
by Mithaldu 12y ago
This works because the free wifi makes the people want to stay there and spend money there, so in effect everybody pays for the wifi. In high-end hotels the relationship is entirely reversed and people stay there because they want to stay there, and the wifi is used to extract more money because people actually need it while staying there.
It also needs to be kept in mind that all these asian small places have DIY wifi, while hotels got into the wifi game way too early and locked themselves into expensive, underdelivering and long-term contracts with 3rd party companies that do the wifi for them.
- rb2k_ 12y agoI wonder how much problems companies can get into when providing open wifi in the respective countries. I assume nothing ever happens in a lot of asian countries when somebody torrents their favourite new movie/tv show from one of these connections while I imagine US ISPs send nasty "stop it" letters every now and then. (even if the hotel might not be liable, that probably doesn't stop Comcast from sending them)
- TeMPOraL 12y ago> while hotels got into the wifi game way too early and locked themselves into expensive, underdelivering and long-term contracts with 3rd party companies that do the wifi for them. It's basically one group of scoundrels that got cheated by another group of scoundrels. I wonder though, how hard would it be for hotels to renegotiate those contracts - or drop them and eat the fee - if they actually cared?
- saryant 12y agoThat's what Hyatt just did. http://newsroom.hyatt.com/?s=20295&item=123338 http://newsroom.hyatt.com/?s=20295&item=123338