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Mobile phones during travels
BBC's Fast Track program this week had some interesting information.
While airlines are preparing to allow mobile phones on aircraft by 2006, some hotels have seen revenus from land line phone drop by as much as 70% in recent years since customers now use their own mobile phones instead of paying exhorbitant hotel rates. It is now feared that hotels will start installing mobile jammers so that guests will revert to using the landline phones and thus re-establish those now lost revenus. As well, Fast Track compared current airline phone costs. Emirates is the creapest at USD$5.00 pr minute, next is Singapore at $5.90. Most others are at the $9.00 per minuta range (I assume these are for satellite calls that work over oceans, as opposed to the domestic land based systems available in north america). |
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It is now feared that hotels will start installing mobile jammers so
that guests will revert to using the landline phones and thus re-establish those now lost revenus. I imagine this won't last much past the time the third or fourth person checks out early and advises the hotel that in the future he'll be staying at a hotel that acts like it wants his business. Hotel chains seem to have a death wish about theit phones. If they priced phone calls in a reasonable ballpark, e.g., 25 or 50 cents for a local call an under 10 cpm for long distance, people would actually use it, and they'd make tons of money. I once asked a hotel financial manager about this, and he just rolled his eyes and sighed. |
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It is now feared that hotels will start installing mobile jammers so
that guests will revert to using the landline phones and thus re-establish those now lost revenus. I imagine this won't last much past the time the third or fourth person checks out early and advises the hotel that in the future he'll be staying at a hotel that acts like it wants his business. Hotel chains seem to have a death wish about theit phones. If they priced phone calls in a reasonable ballpark, e.g., 25 or 50 cents for a local call an under 10 cpm for long distance, people would actually use it, and they'd make tons of money. I once asked a hotel financial manager about this, and he just rolled his eyes and sighed. |
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the domestic land based systems available in north america are in fact
pretty crappy, well below the standard of the gsm systems available in most of the rest of the world!! Still - what ya' don' know................. and all that..!!!! "nobody" wrote in message ... BBC's Fast Track program this week had some interesting information. While airlines are preparing to allow mobile phones on aircraft by 2006, some hotels have seen revenus from land line phone drop by as much as 70% in recent years since customers now use their own mobile phones instead of paying exhorbitant hotel rates. It is now feared that hotels will start installing mobile jammers so that guests will revert to using the landline phones and thus re-establish those now lost revenus. As well, Fast Track compared current airline phone costs. Emirates is the creapest at USD$5.00 pr minute, next is Singapore at $5.90. Most others are at the $9.00 per minuta range (I assume these are for satellite calls that work over oceans, as opposed to the domestic land based systems available in north america). |
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Cyrus Afzali wrote:
If they are thinking about installing jammers over lost phone revenues, they should check into FCC regulations and see how much the fines are for getting caught with them. FCC has no jurisdiction outside the christian republic of the USA. France has recently authorized the use of jammers in movie/theatres for instance. |
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Cyrus Afzali wrote:
If they are thinking about installing jammers over lost phone revenues, they should check into FCC regulations and see how much the fines are for getting caught with them. FCC has no jurisdiction outside the christian republic of the USA. France has recently authorized the use of jammers in movie/theatres for instance. |
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Hotel chains seem to have a death wish about theit phones. If they
priced phone calls in a reasonable ballpark, e.g., 25 or 50 cents for a local call an under 10 cpm for long distance, people would actually use it, and they'd make tons of money. I once asked a hotel financial manager about this, and he just rolled his eyes and sighed. It's the same with the mini-bar. The prices are so hight it's literally comical - If I'm at a major chain I don't even bother opening the thing. If, however, I knew a tin of pringles was only a little bit more than what I'd pay in the 7-11 downstairs I'd probably be in the thing all the time. Cheers, Geoff Glave Vancouver, Canada |
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Cyrus Afzali wrote:
With the mini bar, I don't think they're willing to take the risks lower prices would entail because they'd be afraid margins would drop. They're very expensive to maintain, given that every item has to be catalogued and checked every day for consumption. The costs associated with that don't drop over time, so once they've figured out a price point that will allow them to achieve the revenue and profit they think is worthwhile, they're not going to easily move it. Cataloging and stocking is pretty much a fixed price. If they can get a lot more volume at more reasonable prices (and I'm sure they could) then they will earn more profit. miguel -- Hit The Road! Photos from 32 countries on 5 continents: http://travel.u.nu |
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