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Wi-Fi to be Free in Starbucks
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I think it depends on the country, in some countries its free, in others you just get a WiFi hotspot with payfor WiFi. For example in Malaysia it appeared to be free.
Boingo is the source of all evil!! i had it for a few months and it was great at first until they start charging you for 'premium' locations which is pretty much everywhere so you end up paying more. And good luck trying to cancel, in the end I had to goto my bank (Barclays) to stop the payments.
McDonnalds has had free wifi for ages, if they (Starbucks) are using BT Openzone now which has taken over T-Mobile Hotspots (IIRC) then it makes sense.
(BT isn't Bluetooth it's British Telecom).
Yeah, it depends. In London free WiFi was just for O2 customers, in Prague it was completely free but for some reason I couldn't access Twitter there, in Vienna you had to ask for a code with your coffee for 30 min of free WiFi (I think)...
I am sure that used it free early August on BT Openzone, so it has been running for some time already. Yesterday I stopped at Watford Gap service station with a Costa concession. Same free BT Openzone wifi. Didn't drink any of that burnt espresso muck, though.
A large cup of drip-brewed coffee is about $1.60. I don't know where people get these ludicrous starbucks prices from.
It's not my favorite place in the world, but you can get good service in a clean restaurant with decent coffee and a comfortable place to hang out for less than $2. And although Starbucks is kind of an imperialist chain, I do like the fact that Starbucks are very homogenous and I know what to expect in almost any single franchise that I walk into.
Ridiculing starbucks is so easy I don't see the point in it anymore. Complaints about the taste or the price or the naming of the sizes -- get over yourselves, people. Starbucks jokes were funny a few years back, but they're not clever anymore.
Glad to hear of Starbucks' action but shouldn't we be pushing for worldwide Wi-Fi access everywhere so the poor and the rich can have free public access?
william sire
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I got the prices I posted from the Starbucks about 1 mile from my house right after I read your post. I never drink a large cup, I had a medium and it was $2.65 and I passed on the $4.00 coffee roll.
I imagine price may have to do with location but you can’t get a decent cup of coffee for $1.60 at a Dunkin Donuts anywhere I know of in Massachusetts.
Well,when that happens my iBook,iPod Touch,and I are going to Starbucks with a pocket full of cash and charger cables.
(sorry,I'm VERRY technical at times.)Oh and school books will be going to.)
(sorry,I'm VERRY technical at times.)
Oh and school books will be going to.)
In the states here, I havn't seen a Starbucks with free wifi. It is quite frustrating because I swear they got the whole neighborhood around `bucks "on lock." Meaning I kismac scan the area and all the networks are protected. This is like at 3 different Starbucks branches now. They probably send a coffee "barista" over to the neighbors telling them to lock their routers up and they will give them free coffee.
They don't use standard terms for small, medium, and large... they use "grande" or some such... hard-headed I guess... nothing worse than telling them "I want a small plain coffee" and hearing, "Well, we don't make a small!"
Insofar as Wifi it should be free everywhere... doesn't cost much to offer the public access in every public and private establishment...
They have different sizes of coffee.
Short
Tall
Grande (translates to large)
Venti (translates to 20)
So, yea, this link was about them starting it in the UK & Ireland.
It has already been around in the US & Canada. It is the deal where you have a registered Starbucks Card and you can use the wifi for free with your login. As it is in the US & Canada, you can use it in either country with just one card. That is to say, I have a Starbucks Card registered in the US, and I can use the WiFi in both the US & Canada. I really hope that they keep it open this way with the UK & Ireland as well. We are already able to use our Starbucks Cards in the UK & Ireland to make purchases, hopefully they'll make the WiFi inter-operable between countries.
It has already been around in the US & Canada. It is the deal where you have a registered Starbucks Card and you can use the wifi for free with your login. As it is in the US & Canada, you can use it in either country with just one card. That is to say, I have a Starbucks Card registered in the US, and I can use the WiFi in both the US & Canada. I really hope that they keep it open this way with the UK & Ireland as well. We are already able to use our Starbucks Cards in the UK & Ireland to make purchases, hopefully they'll make the WiFi inter-operable between countries.