You're correct. Wyndham probably wants a share of all the 'minutes' for guests staying in their hotels. But then, I once heard a Wyndham officer talk about being able to brand the water in the bowl of the toilet in your room.
In the meantime, they figured out how to leverage all those dot-com dollars invested in Wayport. Jim (used to be CTO @ Wayport). On Wednesday, October 2, 2002, at 05:03 PM, Dave Holmes-Kinsella wrote: > 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 > -- general wireless list, a bawug thing <http://www.bawug.org/> [un]subscribe: http://lists.bawug.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless
