Originally Posted by
worldwidedreamer
This whole thread reminds me of the cool Cisco IP phones they used to have at the Presidents Clubs...that they had to remove when people started stealing them. Just remember that ultimately the passenger pays when someone takes advantage of the airline.
That pissed me off to no end. The flight status, weather and stock webapps on those phones were awesome! The POS Avaya were terrible, slow and never worked. When I asked where the Cisco 7960s went, and they told me they had been disappearing for a while I almost brought a box in from work after they killed our deployment.
Best story on this I ever heard was when a college deployed these in the dorms and the first thing they did was take a Polaroid of one to all the pawn shops and tell them to call the IT groups when they started showing up.
Worked well, a few disappeared, came back and then no problems after that!