For 60 bucks a month the Verizon laptop card is great. Its great for people that stay in hotels or are on long train rides. If you work for a big company, I am sure they have no problem squeezing a few more hours of productivity out of you.

Sprint has 'em too, and the card itself is free right now when you activate a new data plan. Can't beat free! :D

My company does let me expense it, and they've already gotten back the monthly fee through a 7-hour delay in AUS (where I would have expensed $10 for T-Mobile) and five nights at a hotel that charged $10/night for Internet. Not to mention how wonderful it is to be able to get on the Internet when I take the train in to San Francisco, visit my grandmother (no high-speed Internet access), etc.

If you ask me, it's shameful
 

As a consultant, I have to bill expenses to my clients. At least one of my clients does not want to pay 10 bucks a day for my use of the internet.

I have a hard time seeing why anyone would want to stay at a f/s Marriott. The rooms cost more to begine with, plus they make you pay for breakfast, phone calls, internet, and often parking too.

What are you getting for the money?

I simply tether to my cell phone and get on the net that way, I dislike paying for HS internet and cannot understand why the lower brands provide it for free while the high end hotels charge.

Dan

I agree completely. Charge me more for the room, but stop nickel and diming me to death with the extra charges!!

Not me, charge me for a towels please! Give me a 100buck room and charge me 10 bucks for:towels, internet, parking, soap, usa today (mandatory), each outlet i plugged into and 5 bucks for each room key! MUCH easier for me to expense that.

Kinda OT, but if i could put tips on my bill the bell man would get a 20 EVERYTIME!

My company has just rolled out Verison cards to all consultants. We charge the $60 monthly fee back to clients, but it's still less than the $160 (4 weeks X 4 days x $10/day) that we were expensing back to them before. With these EVDO cards, the speeds are as good as a lot of hotel networks and in some cases better. I think we'll see a lot more companies going this route, so Marriott should roll into the rates before it's too late.