[telecom] Marriot hotels fined $600,000 for blocking customers' WiFi

Marriott to pay $600,000 to resolve wifi-blocking investigation.

Hotel Operator Admits Employees Improperly Used Wi-Fi Monitoring System to Block Mobile Hotspots; Agrees to Three-Year Compliance Plan.

News Release. Adopted: 10/03/2014.

-fcc info[a] at:

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- the hotel deliberately interfered with the local WiFi bubbles that guests were setting up via cellular interconnections so as to force people to pay the hotel directly.

[a] FCC postings are typically available as Word Documents, PDF format, and kind-of plain text. The URLs tend to be the same with the extension signifying which is which.
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