{"id":902,"date":"2007-03-26T09:14:04","date_gmt":"2007-03-26T16:14:04","guid":{"rendered":"tag:feeds.computerworld.com:\/\/e2c87b1968ca27ae5f67ad6961cddb72"},"modified":"2007-03-26T09:14:04","modified_gmt":"2007-03-26T16:14:04","slug":"why-is-hotel-internet-access-so-expensive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/?p=902","title":{"rendered":"Why is hotel Internet access so expensive?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I've just been away on business to Amsterdam with a group of my associates where we spent the majority of time in a single room discussing a project. Although we didn't spent a lot of time on the Internet -- in fact, we tried desperately to keep laptops closed so we could concentrate on the matter at hand.<\/p>\n<p>However, checking email and calls home to the various homes via Skype required Internet access. The cost was almost prohibitive, but it was a necessary expense and so therefore unavoidable.<\/p>\n<p>Why so expensive?<\/p>\n<p>Internet access is cheap, especially in a large modern city like Amsterdam.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve just been away on business to Amsterdam with a group of my associates where we spent the majority of time in a single room discussing a project. Although we didn&#8217;t spent a lot of time on the Internet &#8212; in fact, we tried desperately to keep laptops closed so we could concentrate on the matter at hand.<\/p>\n<p>However, checking email and calls home to the various homes via Skype required Internet access. The cost was almost prohibitive, but it was a necessary expense and so therefore unavoidable.<\/p>\n<p>Why so expensive?<\/p>\n<p>Internet access is cheap, especially in a large modern city like Amsterdam.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[27],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/902"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=902"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/902\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}