Re: Charging for Internet Access & ISA 2004

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"Phillip Windell" <philwindell@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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ISA is a Corporate Firewall Product designed for a Corporate situation.
You cannot run a Kiosk (hotel, Internet Cafe, Pay-per-use Hot Spot, ect)
with it and charge people for it.

The "3rd party" products are designed specifically for building Kiosks.
They probably will even tie into the Hotel's accounting system and create
the temporary user credential when the guest registers for the room.

95% of hotels I have stayed in do not charge for the internet usage. Some
maybe a flat fee for the entire stay, but that practice seems to be fading
away. People probably won't take well to what you want to do. Hotels use
*free* internet access as a lure to get people to stay at their hotel as
opposed to the one down the street. So if you charge for yours, you
probably will make the hotel down the street very happy and give them more
business.

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It's not me that wants to do it, it's a request from the hotel. But I take
your point on charging for the access; In actuality, a charge may not be
made, but we still need to keep track of who's using the hotspots and have
the facility to monitor bandwidth etc.

I don't know what country you're in, but here in the UK I would suggest 95%
of all hotels still charge for Wifi usage and I don't see that changing
anytime soon....


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