Originally Posted by
nicolas75
Some hotels do not want to install wifi - free or not - because it costs too much for them (e.g. IC Berlin, where the IT technician told me that the management refused to invest EUR 150 by room to install wifi).
Some hotels still prefer to get (a lot of ) money from extra charge like wifi.
Some hotels have signed exclusive contracts with internet provider which have installed wifi at a time internet was not a commodity (Swisscom is one of them), and simply cannot change the outrageous price asked for Internet until the end of the contract.
Its the same as the telephones was all those years ago.
The technology moves on a fast rate over 5 years. Also with the hard times the hotels might not have a choice by being able to. They might not have the money to do so.