> What happens when all these hotspots start interfering with your business > wireless APs and prevent you from conducting business? In the case of a hotel > if all the door access is using wireless to let you in your room and all the > personal hotpots being used by guests are preventing doors from opening then > I think the hotel has the obligation to ban the use of hotspots. However if > all these devices play nice and don’t cause problems then no one should block > anything. > > We tell students they can’t bring their own access points to dorms and if we > find they we tell them to shut them down. I know of many colleges that do the > same. I can see the FCC telling colleges they can’t do that anymore if they > can tell hotels they can’t
Ultimately, the business is not granted sole rights for the RF frequencies in use. Businesses benefit from public frequencies, but do so at a risk: they may not be available to you under legitimate use circumstances designated by the FCC. If the business can't operate when confronted with excessive public frequency use, then you should not be relying on public frequencies. I'm hoping this will serve as a motivator to finally push people off 2.4 GHz, but that may be naive. Like Steve Jobs' keynote before this, business must carefully consider what happens when their public frequency wireless networks are not available, and plan accordingly. -Josh ********** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Constituent Group discussion list can be found at http://www.educause.edu/groups/.
