Marriott hotels wants to use Wi-Fi / cell phone jammers @marriott #TravelBrilliantly @MarriottIntl

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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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2 Comments

  1. Kevin Groce
    December 25, 2014 at 10:22 am

    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.

  2. handcannon
    December 26, 2014 at 12:11 am

    i dont see the problem with this. just make wired connections available.

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