The ongoing storm over the Marriott’s jamming of external WiFi signals in its meeting and conference rooms, has at least given regulators around the world cause to reconsider their stances on unlicensed spectrum. The saga began, or at any rate took off, in August 2014, when Marriott International, along with business partner Ryman Hospitality Properties and trade group the American Hotel and Lodging Association (AHLA), asked the FCC to clarify whether, and if so when, hotels could block outside WiFi hotspots in order to protect their internal WiFi services. These parties filed a petition that has come to be known as the AHLA petition, given that it was led by the AHLA, though instigated by Marriott. The wording of this petition…