(January 8, 2015 at 11:36 am)Nope Wrote:(January 6, 2015 at 12:18 pm)Heywood Wrote: How is this different than say a movie theater banning patrons from bringing in outside food and soda?
Wouldn't it be more comparable if the movie theater said that you could bring in a glass of coke that you bought from somewhere else but couldn't drink it? Guests can obviously bring in their own computers or phones into a hotel but can't use their own device in the way they want. Hotels would have to ban anyone bringing in their phone of laptop to be similar to the movie theater ban on food.
It is a stupid move by the Marriot and will give competitors an edge. The first thing that I would do if I owned a competing hotel chain would bei to make a commercial offering free Wi Fi and point out that Marriot charges for Wi fi
I don't know what Marriot charges, if anything, for their Wi-Fi. What they want to prevent people from doing is setting up their own Wi-Fi. Suppose you are staying at a Hotel and set up your own Wi-Fi hotspot. People log into it thinking it is free and secure and you spy on them stealing their credit card info an such.
