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I can't seem to find any hotzones listed in Thailand on the usual hotzone locator sites
Anyone know of any free ones I can skeeze onto in BKK?
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Thai Girls : Meet Sexy Thai Girls
Posted on: 4:33 am on April 20, 2003
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Quote: from eyeswideopen on 4:33 pm on April 20, 2003
I can't seem to find any hotzones listed in Thailand on the usual hotzone locator sites
Anyone know of any free ones I can skeeze onto in BKK?
None so far. I'll let you guys know once I've set one up in the BKK area. Still awaiting for approval from the authorities.
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Bangkok Women : Meet Sensual Bangkok Women
Posted on: 12:06 pm on April 20, 2003
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Man! Eyeswideopen you read my mind, I was thinking for several days this thread oughta happen. Thanks for taking the initiative.
I read a couple of articles in the BKK Post just before I left (Apr 10?) that said some of the higher end hotels are starting to install them due to customer demand. We ought to keep this thread updated as 'hotspots' are discovered.
Check this article out:
http://search.bangkokpost.co.th/bkkpost/2003/mar2003/bp20030321/en/realtime/21mar2003_real24.html
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Thai Girls : Meet Sexy Thai Girls
Posted on: 4:21 pm on April 20, 2003
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Here's the original article (i referred to) from the Post (it's worth reading in its entirety).
http://search.bangkokpost.co.th/bkkpost/2003/apr2003/bp20030402/database/02apr2003_data08.html
Quote: "Public wireless access will also soon be introduced at all branches of Central shopping mall and McDonalds" who'da thought. It's gonna be the ONLY reason you'll ever find me in a McD's. hehehe
In case you weren't aware the Banyan Tree Hotel is the home of Vertigo the 63rd fllor rooftop bar overlooking ALL of BKK. Now wouldn't that be a sweet wireless hotspot!
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Bangkok Girls : Meet Sexy Bangkok Girls
Posted on: 4:59 pm on April 20, 2003
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Cool, was thinking about WLAN in LOS to since I bought a new Samsung X 10 Centrino last weekend... For my opinion the pricing is still ridicolous
QOUTE" The cost for broadband access is 15 baht per minute, 400 baht for an hour and 600 baht for 24-hour access, while 24-hour wireless access costs 1,000 baht."
They have a minimum of hardware costs, but may be no flat-rate..? Here in Germany we have about 40 free WLAN "Hot Spots", mostly at coffee shopd or bars.
I hope till July we'll see a lot of bar owners install a WLAN access point.
Grtx Tom
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Thai Women : Meet Matured Thai Women
Posted on: 6:02 pm on April 20, 2003
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Great article - but maybe i'm dense. Are they saying that these nodes are set up already?
Maybe I'll just get a sniffer program and drive down sukhumvit and silom roads and see what pops up
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Bangkok Women : Meet Beautiful Thai Girls
Posted on: 5:22 am on April 22, 2003
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The business model for offering Braodband in hotels did not make sense during the heydays of the internet bubble. Unless hotels are now more willing to assume some costs travellers will continue to suffer for the lack of good internet access.
Deploying in every room assumes a relatively fixed high cost vis a vis usage. The hotel wants each room installed as it doesnt know what guest in what room is going to want to use the service. Usage then is relatively low as it is only a % of the guests that carry laptops and are willing to use (and pay for) the service -many reasons for low usage but I leave that out for now-. Furthermore, the company providing the service is subject also to the occupancy rates of the hotel.
If occupancy rate is 60% and usage is 10%, only 6% of the rooms deployed at any given time use the service. In the past the hotels thinking they were going to make a killing demanded a share of the revenues and assumed zero deployment cost. This business model didnt work at the end and many companies -both good and bad went belly up. Some good new technologies developped for this sector were lost with the demise of some of these companies. It was not the best that survived sometimes, but the one that got the shareholder with bigger pockets (cuz the hotels still did not want to guarantee a minimum fixed revenue per occupied room -the amounts asked from the hotels were sometimes less than the cost of toiletries in the room).
The wireless zones in the common areas are mostly a marketing gimmick. As either the service is provided for free to anyone whith a wireless network card, or it is then very cumbersome to manage as securing a way to charge the user requires some manipulation and face to face interfacing with hotel staff.
The real revenues are in the business center and in the provision of high-speed at the meeting rooms for conferences.
Sadly this is one basic area where the final user wanted a product, but the sillines of the business models in vogue during the internet boom made for unsound practices. One company even went to the extreme of paying millions of dollars to a hotel chain for having the privilige of going and expending money deploying in all its hotels. That company does no longer exist.
Many 5* hotels in Asia that had broadband service 3 years ago, do not have it now.
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Bangkok Girls : Meet Attractive Thai Girls
Posted on: 5:57 am on April 22, 2003
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unfortunately they're not free - even at starbucks, apparently ... although most hotspots are broadband, perhaps justifying costs.
an article in Wed's 'database' mentioned that Phuket is taking off as a high tech hub - 256kb connections the norm, at 60b/hr - as cafe shops compete, hopefully this spreads as rapidly as the first wave the internet as we now know it...
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Posted on: 8:17 am on May 15, 2003
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