It’s uncanny how often otherwise zippy mobile hotspots suddenly fail once you walk into a hotel conference room. Could somebody be blocking their signal?
The FCC has found at least one hotel that actually did it. Marriott’s Gaylord Opryland Hotel and Convention Center in Nashville, Tenn. And the commission busted the hotel for doing so. Marriott will pay a $600,000 fine for the offense. You can read the FCC Order here.
The investigation started when the FCC got a complaint in 2013 from a person who suspected that the hotel was blocking his hotspot. The complaint alleged that the Gaylord Opryland was “jamming mobile hotspots so that you can’t use them in the convention space.”
