The company in question is Smart City Networks. “Founded in the basement of the Houston Astrodome,” Smart City provides telecom services to convention centers all over the country and charges an insulting $80 fee for a single day of wifi service. To make matters worse, Smart City screwed over people who tried to get around the high fee by using a personal hotspot—the Federal Communications Commission caught the company using a wifi monitoring system to block hotspots that attendees tried to use to provide their own wifi. That’s pretty rude, and it’s also illegal. Now, Smart City will be the one paying. - Adam Clark Estes, Gizmodo [via/web:http://streaming-tv.us]
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