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Hotels lead in deployment of Wi-Fi for corp. travelers.

Publication: Business Travel News
Publication Date: 03-OCT-05 		Format: Online - approximately 814 words
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Article Excerpt
From airport lounges to rental car locations to restaurants, wireless-fidelity hotspots have become an increasingly common sight for laptop-lugging business travelers, but it is the hospitality industry, that leads the charge in making the technology widely available. Information technology research and consulting firm Gartner Group in a report released last month said, "Hotels remain the leading Wi-Fi hotspot locations, with more than 60,000 places across the world."

While such hotel brands as Hilton, Hyatt, Omni and Kimpton, among others, have made wireless Internet access the standard across properties, other companies, including Marriott, busily have been making strides to roll out the technology across most hotels.

Hyatt last year began an aggressive rollout to bring Wi-Fi to public areas across more than...

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