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Starbucks Drops T-Mobile For AT&T

Posted by kdawson on from the too-little-too-latte dept.

stoolpigeon writes "Ars reports that Starbucks is replacing T-Mobile with AT&T as their Wi-Fi provider. AT&T broadband customers will be able to access the service for free. Starbucks card users will get 2 hours a day free. 2-hour, daily, and monthly rates will be lower than they were with T-Mobile. Starbucks says that their previously announced deal to tie in with iTunes will continue under AT&T. For now AT&T isn't offering free Wi-Fi to iPhone users, but says it expects to accommodate them soon. Quoting the article: 'The companies didn't specify exactly when the rollout would begin, only saying that it would take place this spring... [The company plans] to install all new equipment at Starbucks as part of this agreement, so the changeover won't be as simple as flipping a switch.'"

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  1. Re:Hooray? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    The new york times is nothing but a complete pack of drivel-laden liberal mouthpiece lies. I had no idea so much yellow journalism could even fit between one rubber band until I had the misfortune to pick one up in, you guessed it, a Starbucks a few weeks ago. I flipped to the editorials and wouldn't you guess, there was some idiot trying to besmirch the troops with shameful lies. This imbecile had the temerity to assert that the murder rate among ex-combat vets was somehow out of control and Something Has To Be Done About It(TM). Only thing is, if one has the intellectual honesty to actually look at the real statistics compiled by the justice department, you'd see that the homicide rate of war veterans is in fact several times lower than that of the general population in the same age group. Of course, your typical frappucino drinking new york lies reading pinhead wouldn't have the sense to question such sage wisdom.

    It makes me sick.

  2. Re:Hooray? by Hadlock · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    lawls @ your troll
     
    +1 hillarious
     
    nyt is the only paper i can buy across the street from my work that has any decent national/world coverage

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  3. Re:Hooray? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    "For who can denie but it is repugneth to nature, that the blind shall be appointed to leade and conduct such as do see? That the weake, the sicke and impotent persons shall norishe and kepe the hole and strong? And finallie, that the foolishe, madde and phrenetike shal governe the discrete and give counsel to such as be sober of mind. And such be al women, compared unto man in bearing of authoritie. For their sight in civile regiment is but blindness; their strength, weaknes; their counsel, foolishnes; and judgment, phrensie, if it be rightlie considered."

  4. Re:Hooray? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    old news. panera pwnz u r00t

  5. Re:I visited starbucks by mjwx · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Actually as an Australian I notice that it is actually a common accent for USians. USians don't notice it because they are exposed to it constantly. I don't think I have an Australian accent but when I go overseas I notice that my Australian accent really begins to come out.

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    Calling someone a "hater" only means you can not rationally rebut their argument.
  6. tubgiRl by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    and sold In the Distribution. As