“Hotel chain: we just want to hotspots from guests in meeting room block”

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The American hotel chain Marriott agrees not personal wi-fi hotspots of guests in hotel rooms or the lobby to would like to block. Only the hotspots that with the connection in meeting rooms frustrate or pose a hazard.

Marriott says his guests to invite and encourage personal mifi and wi – fi hotspots to use. The communication of the chain follows a request from Marriott and the American Hotel & Lodging Association to the FCC to provide clarity on the may block of the hotspots of guests.

“The question is what measures network administrators can take to malicious and fake hotspots used in our meeting rooms and is a danger or the connection of the guest networks to disrupt, to detect and to protect”, claims Marriot. The hotel chain says this guests to want to protect against hackaanvallen.

Critics of the position of the hotels, such as Google and Microsoft, fearing that the block of hotspots is primarily intended for guests to force to of the hotelnetwerken to use. Use of these networks is usually paid and thereby an additional source of income. Marriott was last year, a fine of converted 479.000 euro due to the blocking of wi-fi hotspots from customers.