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Adventures of Link: "Free" WiFi

June 3, 2008 at 5:30 PM | by | Comment (1)

You've heard, right? Starbucks will start giving away two-hour chunks of WiFi to people who use their 'bux card at least once a month. Given that we're more into alternative coffee shops, we're having a hard time getting excited about getting online this way.

Besides, it's not actually free: You have to buy stuff! Still, for a lot of people, this is probably a good deal. (Just make sure to read through the extensive rules and restrictions.)

But we did get excited about certain Starbucks airport locations. Would they give us a work-around for those obnoxious $10-a-day fees? According to the searches we did... No. All the airport locations we checked are WiFi-free. Weak!

Related Stories:
· Starbucks Card [Official Site]
· AT&T Offers Free Wi-Fi to Laptop Wireless Users [CNet]
· Starbucks Courts Customer Loyalty with Free Wi-Fi [Seattle P-I, via]
· It's Official: Free WiFi at Starbucks for Everyone* [DMN]
· Starbucks Alternatives coverage [Jaunted]

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free WiFi at Starbucks

Reminds me of this fabulous stunt by Improv Everywhere at a Starbucks in NYC, where 3 agents arrived independently and seemingly unrelated, all of them carting giant old-style desktop computers and CRT monitors and associated hardware in rolling luggage and proceeded to plug everything in and start surfing the Web among the normal laptop-toting customers, who looked incredulous:
http://improveverywhere.com/2008/02/25/mobile-desktop/
travelina on June 4, 2008 at 12:08 AM #Permalink

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