France Telecom's puts Orange Wi-Fi into Accor hotels: Accor has 1,300 hotels in a range of prices, and the plan is to charge 5 euros per hour, with some packages available, including five users at a conference for 40 euros for a day.
The company revealed its assumptions, rare for a press release. They expect 5,000 sessions per day with this footprint and 10,000 per day by 2006. Of course, that's only a few users per day per hotel! Can they recover costs at 100 euros per day per location -- especially when the current overprice European model collapses?