{"id":183327,"date":"2014-12-24T21:31:00","date_gmt":"2014-12-25T02:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2014\/12\/24\/hotel-telecommunications-fery\/"},"modified":"2014-12-24T21:31:00","modified_gmt":"2014-12-25T02:31:00","slug":"hotel-telecommunications-fery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2014\/12\/24\/hotel-telecommunications-fery\/","title":{"rendered":"Hotel Telecommunications F%$#ery"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Marriott specifically, who just got fined for jamming personal Wi-Fi hotspots, and is now <a href=\"http:\/\/recode.net\/2014\/12\/22\/google-wireless-industry-not-down-with-marriotts-wi-fi-blocking-plan\/\">attempting to get regulatory forbearance<\/a>:<\/div>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">Microsoft and Google don\u2019t agree on much, but they\u2019ve presented a united front against the hotel industry, which is trying to convince government regulators to give them the option of blocking guests from using personal Wi-Fi hotspots. <\/p>\n<p>The tech companies recently joined the wireless industry\u2019s lobbying group and a <a href=\"http:\/\/apps.fcc.gov\/ecfs\/proceeding\/view?name=RM-11737\">handful of other parties<\/a> in opposing the hotel industry\u2019s petition, which seeks the Federal Communications Commission\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/apps.fcc.gov\/ecfs\/document\/view?id=60000986872\">permission to block<\/a> personal Wi-Fi networks on their properties. <\/p>\n<p>This summer, the American Hospitality &amp; Lodging Association and Marriott International asked the FCC to declare that a hotel operator can use equipment to manage its network even if it \u201cmay result in \u2018interference with or cause interference\u2019 to a [wireless device] being used by a guest on the operator\u2019s property.\u201d<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;Now that many people have cell phones, and don&#8217;t pay the usurious fees for phone calls, Marriott wants to jam personal Wi-Fi hotspots so that they can charge equally usurious fees for that:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">The Marriott-owned Gaylord Opryland Hotel and Convention Center tech staff was using a monitoring system that de-authenticated guests\u2019 personal Wi-Fi hot spots. Meanwhile, the hotel was charging exhibitors and attendees anywhere from $250 to $1,000 for Wi-Fi service, the FCC said. <\/p>\n<p>In October, Marriott <a href=\"https:\/\/apps.fcc.gov\/edocs_public\/attachmatch\/DA-14-1444A1.pdf\">settled<\/a> an FCC <a href=\"http:\/\/recode.net\/2014\/10\/03\/marriott-settles-fcc-complaint-about-blocking-rival-wi-fi-networks\/\">complaint<\/a> about the practice for $600,000 but argued that it hadn\u2019t broken the law and was using technology to protect guests from \u201crogue wireless hotspots that can cause degraded service, insidious cyber attacks and identity theft.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>A month later, the agency asked for comments on Marriott\u2019s earlier request to find such Wi-Fi blocking legal.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;Like I said, Hotel Telecommunications F%$#ery.<\/p>\n<p>I think that the deadline for comment has passed, but you can read the comments <a href=\"http:\/\/apps.fcc.gov\/ecfs\/proceeding\/view;ECFSSESSION=qpQvJbtGws1T5v0LSbXb81XLLx059qXFKbFGKdSNYGLhTBXn6Dfw!1175060748!1957906226?name=RM-11737\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marriott specifically, who just got fined for jamming personal Wi-Fi hotspots, and is now attempting to get regulatory forbearance: Microsoft and Google don\u2019t agree on much, but they\u2019ve presented a united front against the hotel industry, which is trying to convince government regulators to give them the option of blocking guests from using personal Wi-Fi &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[997,985,1025,979],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-183327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet","category-regulation","category-technology","category-wanker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183327"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183327"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183327\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}