Posted: 24th Feb, 2010 By: MarkJ

Hotel chain City Inn will offer its guests access to a new 'up to' 100Mbps broadband network thanks to a backbone supplied by Easynet Global Services. Guests at City Inn’s six UK hotels will now have access to high speed wireless Wi-Fi internet, which will be provided via a dedicated line, ensuring bandwidth is always available.
Huw O’Connor, Managing Director of City Inn, said:
"Hotels have always offered other commodities to a high standard, but where technology is concerned the sector has tended to lag behind. City Inn has always been a pioneer in the use of technology and we know that bandwidth is at the heart of a good internet service and that our customers really want the same speed of web access as they are used to in the work place or at home.
Some hotels charge over £25 per day for internet access that is much slower that customers are used to at home or in the office, but the bottom line is, our customers will think, “I don't pay that at home or at work so why should I pay it in a hotel” and we understand that completely."
This technology will enhance the already "
state-of-the-art" facilities in the meeting and event spaces at each hotel. The improved Internet access will be available from March 2010 across all six hotels in Birmingham, Bristol, Glasgow, Leeds, Manchester and Westminster.