Accor is now offering free basic wifi across 194 of its hotels in the UK and Ireland.
The French group is providing online access at up to 512k in all its Ibis Budget, Ibis, Ibis Styles, Novotel, Mercure, Pullman and M Gallery hotels.
Guests can also pay for high-speed wifi over fibre optic broadband for £3 per 24-hour period.
Wifi is accessible in bedrooms, meeting rooms and all public areas of each hotel.
Thomas Dubaere, managing director of Accor UK and Ireland, said: "Free wifi has become the norm at many coffee houses or bars but in the past with hotel groups it can vary from property to property, and differ between the public areas to bedrooms.
"We recognise that guests expect to have free wifi wherever they are in the hotel and for it to be a quick, high quality connection.
"This is why we invested across all our brands in the UK in super, fibre-optic wifi so that guests can use smartphones, tablets, laptops - whatever technology device – at ease, anywhere in the hotel and for no charge."
In an interview with Business Traveller last year, chief marketing officer Accor Hotels Gregoire Champetier described wifi as a "pre-requirement... if you don't offer free wifi in a hotel, even economy, it's a problem, it's a default."
Graham Smith
