Re: FCC on wifi at hotel

["Steve Meuse" <smeuse () gmail com>]

It's about revenue recovery. If you provide your own free wifi, they are
losing potential business. It's usually part of the negotiation with the
Hotel.

-Steve


On 2/28/07, Carl Karsten <carl () personnelware com> wrote:
> me again.
>
> So wifi at pycon 07 was 'better than 06' witch I hear was a complete
> disaster.
> More on 07's coming soon.
>
> Now we are talking about wifi at pycon 08, which will be at a different
> hotel
> (Crown Plaza in Rosemont, IL) and the question came up: Can the hotel
> actively
> prevent us from using our own wifi?
>
> _maney: although - wasn't the hotel stuck on "our wifi or no wifi" at last
> report?
>
> CarlFK: only the FCC can restrict radio
>
> tpollari: it's their network and their power the FCC has no legal right to
> that.
> and no, you show me where they do.  I'm not wasting my day with that tripe
> --
> the caselaw you're likely thinking of has to do with an airline and an
> airport
> and the airline's lounge, in which case they're paying for the power and
> paying
> for their bandwidth from a provider that's not the airport. We're not.
>
> I know that there are all sorts of factors, and just cuz the FCC says boo
> isn't
> the end of the story, but i don't even know what the FCC's position on
> this is.
>   google gave me many hits, and after looking at 10 or so I decided to
> look
> elsewhere.
>
> Carl K



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-Steve