A story out of Malaysia encourages hotel operators to offer broadband, and refers to Internet Telephony, aka VoIP.
As someone who travels, broadband is a requirement and I prefer a wired room so I can bring along a telephone adapter from one of the companies offering me VoIP. which means I need a router too.
While I don’t travel all the time with all the equipment, when I go to Europe I sure do, as I tend to spend five to seven days in each city and prefer to keep my costs down on telco charges that are always massaged upwards in hotels. Having my USA number with me sure cuts the cellphone bill down too.