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Old Mar 20, 2003 | 2:08 pm
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Cholula
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Here's a blurb from "socrates" that may give some insight into Marriott's plan for HS Internet access:

<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Intel & STSN are paying for the wireless service (full service hotels only) and STSN will get 100% of the revenue until the costs are paid for then the hotels get a small sliver...but Intel is pushing (as are we) to get this done ASAP if not sooner...Wired for Business will be available for all Marriott Managed hotels by the end of May with a heavy push from Marriott for the franchises to follow ASAP, but it will be required for all full service hotels to offer it soon (but we have to allow time to install high speed internet).

I'm not sure when CY's are rolling out high speed internet for free but I suspect it'll be around the same time frame but again not all hotels have high speed internet so we have to allow time before mandating it for 100% of the hotels

Anyone wanna take bets how long it'll take before free high speed internet is a standard for all hotels?

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