Todd Boyle felt inclined to opine: > From: Todd Boyle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [BAWUG] More on WiFi vs. 3G "Battle" Topic > www.80211-planet.com/columns/article/0,4000,1781_1473511,00.html > > [...] > > Wyndham senior vice president and chief technology officer Mark Hedley > believes that within three to five years, high-speed wireless Internet > access in hotels will be provided not over local 802.11 networks > but via nationwide 3G networks. Wyndham and countless other companies, in countless industries, will always prefer to sell products that are proprietary because they have greater revenue potential. In general, these companies do not care about any form of "commons". Anything that is has not yet been marketized, or quantified in our money system doesn't exist, and these sorts of companies are against standardization of anything.
I conclude Wyndham either plans to get a payoff from some 3G telco or ISP scheme, or they have been beaten by monopolists so many times they are simply not willing to bet on unlicensed, standards-based, owner-operated Internet. Todd < With respect, I conclude differently: Wyndham plans to compete with other hotels in serving the business market. I discovered, much to my delight, that if you're a Wyndham guest program member, you get broadband access for free in the properties that have it - Wyndham, like that coffee house in Seattle (?) that's been fighting with Starbucks and those caf� guys over in Massachusetts, have figured out that it's not about rooking the punter for another ten bucks or so, it's about attracting and retaining your customers. Wyndham cares only about selling a service experience. That's all a hotel can ever be. Cheers, -- dhk -- general wireless list, a bawug thing <http://www.bawug.org/> [un]subscribe: http://lists.bawug.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless
