Marriott Fined $600,000 For Jamming Guest Hotspots

Posted by Soulskill on Friday October 3, 2014 @06:26AM from the don't-get-between-hotel-guests-and-their-social-media dept.

schwit1 writes: Marriott will cough up $600,000 in penalties after being caught blocking mobile hotspots so that guests would have to pay for its own Wi-Fi services, the FCC has confirmed today. The fine comes after staff at the Gaylord Opryland Hotel and Convention Center in Nashville, Tennessee were found to be jamming individual hotspots and then charging people up to $1,000 per device to get online. Marriott has been operating the center since 2012, and is believed to have been running its interruption scheme since then. The first complaint to the FCC, however, wasn't until March 2013, when one guest warned the Commission that they suspected their hardware had been jammed.

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Now if they could only fix... by TWX · 2014-10-03 06:28 · Score: 1, Funny

...convention centers, sports stadiums, and other large public venues that stop working simply due to the sheer number of people congregated, that would be nice.

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Maybe we should pour cement down their toilets by JoeyRox · 2014-10-03 06:33 · Score: 5, Funny

To return the jamming favor.
Raspberry! I hate Raspberry! by Anonymous Coward · 2014-10-03 06:38 · Score: 4, Funny

Only one man would dare... Lone Star!