FCC Prohibits Blocking of Personal Wi-Fi Hotspots

alphadogg writes: The FCC on Tuesday warned that it will no longer tolerate hotels, convention centers or others intentionally interfering with personal Wi-Fi hotspots. This issue grabbed headlines last fall when Marriott International was fined $600,000 for blocking customer Wi-Fi hotspots, presumably to encourage the guests to pay for pricey Internet access from the hotel.

Comments

Re:I am mad if I cant unplug my employee hotspots

[ShanghaiBill]

If they won't let me unplug my employees private hotspots on my network, I will be mad.

You can unplug them. You just can't actively jam them.

Re:Damn!

[Harlequin80]

Faraday cages don't jam signals. They insulate the inside from the outside.

Re: I am mad if I cant unplug my employee hotspots

[Jason Levine]

If the employees are turning on their personal hotspots and using that, you don't have a security problem. If they are both connecting to the hotspot and to your network, you can stop this by booting them off your network. What you can't do, though, is put a hotspot jamming device in place to knock out all personal hotspots.