Only 25 % of
Business people can be bothered to take their laptop with them on trips ,
leaving them in real need on occasions to be able to keep in touch.
There are many ways
in which you can offer your customer's access to the Internet with the
simplest option appearing to be to supply a standard computer and charge
for the time used ,but this can have many disadvantages to you,
* You can't
be sure what your customers are doing, they could be connecting to a
premium charge telephone line
*They could
have accessed a secure page , but an ordinary PC may compromise their
security by leaving their password open to the next user who has total
access to their account.
*If you
are on a network , even if the most novice hacker uses your machine
, they could easily break into your system and cause havoc.
Some companies do offer a
service where a payment system linked to a timer that simply cuts
the screen connection when the time expires. This saves having to have
staff around all the time but as soon as the screen is
reactivated all of the difficulties described above come into play, you've not
changed the way the system works, you've just cut the visual image of
what's going on inside the processor . so you really do need a product
which is made to do the job.