Originally Posted by
nicolas75
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.
Swisscom also provides Internet at some IC's and Starwood hotels. Maybe Hilton too? Yet those chains offer free Internet to their top elites. Maybe the hotels are eating the cost, or maybe they negotiated this with Swisscom. But in any case, it's not an excuse these other chains have used.