Cell phones cut hotel bills

The revenue that hotels derive from guest room telephones fell last year to an average of $2 a day per occupied room, compared with $4.10 in 2000, according to the Hospitality Research Group of PKF Consulting, which is based in San Francisco, reports Inside Bay Area.

"The reasons are fairly obvious, said Robert Mandelbaum, the director of research information services: increased use of cell phones and calling cards, as well as a reaction against surcharges on telephone calls."

It may be unkind to bring this up again, but whether some hotels have used cell phone jammers has been a question mark:

-- Do American hotels use cell phone jamming devices?

-- Mobile Phone jame scam in Scottish hotels exposed

emily | 5:23 PM | |
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