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Reader Poll Replies:
* I feel it is a fair price to pay to keep in contact.
Alex NY
* The $2 plus usage sounds
extremely high to me. I'm used to getting free internet access when I
stay at a hotel. Jim & Lucia Paul
* I think this is a great
service and the price is more than fair. As it is so simple for
people to use I do hope that it is a success. Vivienne
Lamuoreux
* I think its a very good
idea...it allows people to checked on their loved ones at home rather
than using the telephone and it allows business people to do some work
while they are away... Priscilla Wroblewski
* I travel quit a bit on business.
All of the hotels I stay at offer free Internet connection. From
Super 8's to Holiday Inn Crown Plaza's. This $2 fee is just another way
to gouge tourists. Don Bartlett Indianapolis
* NO - not fair. They make
beaucoup $$$$$$ as it is and a lot of hotels already offer internet
access free. S. Barnes
* You have three kinds
of customers checking into your hotels: First, and apparently in the
vast majority, are the people getting AWAY from computers and cell
phones for a while; Then you have folks who need to check their e-mail
daily, or potentially transfer some money into their debit card account,
who need a short-term connection, and would more likely use a "business
center" or "internet cafe" public computer if available and
economically reasonable; Most important to this survey are the business
travelers and the permanently connected, who bring their own hardware,
charge it to the room and are reimbursed by the business. The
"Internet Cafe" approach could involve on-line gaming in addition to
running Hotmail in another window, thereby generating more revenue.
Insert
credit card, open a draw poker game here, pick some numbers for Keno
there, and check mail from your kids, while the cocktail waitress brings
you a drink. The only obstacle is software the Gaming Commission would
be comfortable with. The business travelers are becoming more
independent, and less likely to need a "wire", with Bluetooth and
Digital Wireless eliminating traditional copper-based internet
connection. For an in-room wired high speed tap to be worth a fee, you
need to offer more "Intra-net" value, content you can't get on the
public web. Like, interactive Texas hold-em? Don in Portland
* Don't need the internet.
when I go Vegas it is for vacation. no phones or anything . just fun.
GJ Smith
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