Google and Microsoft Oppose Hotels’ Effort to Block Personal Wi-Fi @ WSJ. “Marriott is re-imagining the future of travel.”
Marriott has said it had an obligation to protect guests from “rogue wireless hotspots” that could lead to hacking.
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Google also said if hotels want to engage in “secret jamming” of people’s Wi-Fi devices at hotel properties, this “merely confirms that they recognize the importance their guests attach to having unrestricted access to Wi-Fi.”
Read more & here are the letters from Microsoft and Google to the FCC asking the FCC not to allow Marriott to block Wi-Fi. Pretty intense when both Google and Microsoft team up & completely agree on something.
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This is a very bad idea! Recently here in Nashville The Opryland Hotel was sited by the FCC for using said jammers.
http://www.fcc.gov/document/marriott-pay-600k-resolve-wifi-blocking-investigation
Bad Juju.
i dont see the problem with this. just make wired connections available.