In a brief statement on Wednesday evening, hotel chain Marriott International said that it would not block any personal Wi-Fi devices belonging to its customers.

Marriott International listens to its customers, and we will not block guests from using their personal Wi-Fi devices at any of our managed hotels. Marriott remains committed to protecting the security of Wi-Fi access in meeting and conference areas at our hotels. We will continue to look to the FCC to clarify appropriate security measures network operators can take to protect customer data, and will continue to work with the industry and others to find appropriate market solutions that do not involve the blocking of Wi-Fi devices.

Despite that pledge, Re/Code reports that the company is not rescinding a request for rulemaking that it submitted to the Federal Communications Commission late last year, in which it asked for the Commission's blessing to block personal hotspots.

In October, Marriott was fined $600,000 by the FCC following a complaint that one of its Nashville, Tennessee branches was interfering with and disabling personal Wi-Fi hotspots set up by its customers. Marriott agreed to pay the fine but remained defiant, asking the FCC to allow it to resume its practice.

Marriott and the American Hotel & Lodging Association argued that in disabling guests' personal Wi-Fi networks, the hotel was merely exercising "reasonable network management practices” in using a monitoring system to find and evict any unauthorized access points. However, critics argued that Marriott was trying to force its customers to buy its dedicated wireless services and custom networks. Microsoft and Google filed petitions opposing Marriott in its FCC request, arguing that Marriott can keep its own wireless networks safe without monopolizing the unlicensed band of spectrum in which Wi-Fi operates.