• The new hot buttons for negotiations are wireless access and quality of network at venues. Hotels vary even among brands and most don’t have specialized staff on hand.


• All tablets are not created equal. Different brands and models have different compatibility issues when it comes to how the app reads an excel or word document and how it interacts and behaves with certain cloud networks, which needs to be figured out before applications or approaches can be applied using these devices. You can create things that will work on both, but they will work differently and you need to know


how to navigate it. • Good wireless can be expensive, however, free and insufficient wireless is not acceptable ei- ther. Find out what the hotel is charging for and ask the right questions about access, points, band- width, and network switches. It can be a train wreck if you are trying to use a system that can’t accommodate the needs of the conference. The best solution is to connect with the venue’s staff and ask these questions, preplan, and run speed tests. “It’s important to understand bandwidth is a shared medium. Based on the occupancy (if oc-


cupancy is low) of the hotel during your preplan, speed tests can return a “false positive” based on the virtue of no one else being on it at that time. Utilize a speed test in conjunction with other questions - the speed test is one more tool to assess a facilities wireless capabilities.” Note: You can learn more from Timothy La Fleur on various mobility topics on his Twitter handle (@tjlafleur110) his blog (tjlafleurmobility.wordpress.com/) and curate trending topics on my daily newsletter (www.scoop.it/t/tjlafleur-mobility).


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