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Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
ELI5: Why do expensive hotels have private wifi for sale while crappy motels have free wifi?
gpt
You have to look at the business model and the potential customers that each is trying to attract.

Crappy motels are trying to compete on cheap price and convenience, looking for bargain-seeking tourists.  So offering OMG FREE wi-fi is a big draw.

Expensive hotels primarily cater to business clientele and convention goers.  Most of them either have an expense account (so they don't really care because they just pass on the cost to their employer or client), and/or NEED to get onto the Internet because of work.  Also in general these people have are less price sensitive.  

Also sometimes when a large business goes through a travel agency, the people in charge of booking just care about price of the hotel room.  The expense reporting goes to another division.  So they don't really care that the wifi costs more because it's not a line item for them, which means they'd rather book at a cheaper hotel with jacked up wifi prices, than a more expensive one with free wifi.  (Note that these people still aren't competing with the budget motels because usually the company has a certain standard that a hotel has to meet, and budget motels fall short.)