I think a good chunk of the use is even more insidious than that. I've been
in a position where I've offered university guests access to our wifi. A
number of these users - smart, highly technical IT professionals - instead
just said "Nah, I'll just use my hotspot."
I suspect it's a combination of two things. First, "I paid for it, so I have
to use it to get my money's worth". Second, "I'd have to think about how to
set up a new wifi, or I can just turn on my hotspot by rote memory."
In both cases, the cost (or lack thereof) and quality of any host offered wifi
doesn't even factor into the decision at all.
Frank Sweetser fs at wpi.edu | For every problem, there is a solution that
Manager of Network Operations | is simple, elegant, and wrong.
Worcester Polytechnic Institute | - HL Mencken
On 10/3/2014 3:21 PM, Philippe Hanset wrote:
Everything would be so much simpler if locations would provide Wi-Fi for free
or at a reasonable price.
When a technology is used by everyone (e.g. Electricity) like Wi-Fi, just
include it in the cost of doing business.
Stop charging users for Wi-Fi, especially when the room is already at
$200+/night. People will bring their own Mi-Fi or smartphone-hotspot,
and bypass the silly cost model!
At Educause this week the Vendor-floor was plagued with hundreds of Mi-Fi and
private Wi-Fi.
The event was charging upward of $150/day for Wi-Fi to exhibitors. So, many of
them had their own solutions!
Humans are resourceful...and if you piss them off they will read the law and
call the FCC (or they pirate your network ;-)
Philippe
Philippe Hanset
www.eduroam.us <http://www.eduroam.us>
On Oct 3, 2014, at 2:22 PM, Lee H Badman <lhbad...@syr.edu
<mailto:lhbad...@syr.edu>> wrote:
What do you all think of this?
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2014/10/after-blocking-personal-hotspot-at-hotel-marriott-to-pay-fcc-600000/
- Lee Badman
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