The 'Hotspot' hotel

Pan Pacific Sonargaon official speaks at the press conference

Grant J Gaskin, general manager, Pan Pacific Sonargaon briefed the media about the service at a press meet on May 11.

Gaskin explained that guests can plug-and-play from any room of the hotel and browse according to his high-speed internet demand. Once checked in, the guest can enjoy the broadband internet facilities anywhere in the hotel specially in the meeting rooms, ballroom, restaurants, swimming pool area, and the lobby.

"The service will facilitate the business and leisure travelers," said Gaskin. "Such initiative by the hotel will ensure the fact that Pan Pacific Sonargaon is still the best 5 star deluxe property in Dhaka," said Gaskin. He also ensured that the management of the Hotel will continually strive and add new services in the near future to sustain the level of excellence.

Monirul Islam, Management Information System (MIS) Manager of the Hotel discussed the special features of the newly introduced high speed broadband internet system to the press.

Brett Mahoney, director, Sales and Marketing and Habibullah Monju, director, Finance of the hotel, were also present at the event.

"Unlike the 'alleged' broadband service introduced by most local hotels, our broadband service has twice the speed and our guests would not just be confined in any particular location of the hotel," said the hotel's Marketing Communications Manager Imtiaz Ahmed Siddiqui.

"Unlike the situation of logging into the internet from a particular location termed as 'Hot Spots' by some hotels, our entire hotel is a 'Hot Spot', he said.

The costs for half an hour, 1 hour, 4 hours, 24 hours of this high-speed service has been fixed at US $ 7, $ 10, $ 25 and $ 35 respectively, which is inclusive of all taxes.

"The rates may seem to be quite outrageous in the Bangladeshi perspective, but they have been fixed according to International Standard," said Siddqui. He also claimed that the prices are extremely low considering the speed and reliability of the service when compared to the Broadband Internet Service of the 5 star hotels in Europe and USA.