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 [DogReader] Starbucks to Offer Free Wi Fi: and will start offering a mix of free and paid wireless Internet service in more than 7,000 of its U.S. coffee shops beginning this spring.”

 [Smelling the Coffee] Starbucks Changing Wireless to ATT: Starbucks and AT&T will offer a mix of free and paid Wi-Fi offerings at Starbucks stores to meet the needs of both frequent and occasional Starbucks Wi-Fi customers.The initiative further expands the AT&T Wi-Fi network, already the largest in the United States, to more than 17,000 U.S. hot spots and more than 70,000 globally.Beginning this spring, Starbucks Card holders can enjoy up to two hours of free Wi-Fi service per day at Starbucks locations offering Wi-Fi access, while more than 12 million qualifying AT&T broadband and AT&T U-verseSM Internet customers will have unlimited free access to the Wi-Fi service. In addition, more than 5 million of AT&T’s remote access services business customers will be able to access Wi-Fi service at Starbucks locations.

[Keystone Blog] Starbucks WiFi to go Free”¦ Sort of: to rip people off.  Look, maybe I’m closed-minded, but I tend to think that if I can get WiFi for free (at such wonderful establishments as Panera Bread or Krystal) then having to pay for it somewhere else is ridiculous.  The list of places that carry free WiFi for customers is growing by the day.  Starbucks is banking on their customer loyalty (to the coffee) to make some money off the WiFi, and that’s aggravating to me. 

 [dogreader] Starbucks to Offer Free Wi Fi: Free Starbucks Coffee March 15; T-Mobile Answers the Cries of Starbucks Owners; Get A Free Iced Coffee From Dunkin Donuts; Best Stores, Chains, And Franchises For Wi-Fi; Free Citywide Wi-Fi - User Boon Or Starbucks Devil?

[Eric 2.0] Cheaper Wi-Fi at Starbucks good for customers, bad for T-Mobile: As for T-Mobile, losing Starbucks is clearly a blow. The carrier will honor the existing deals it has with its T-Mobile Wi-Fi customers at Starbucks as it also maintains Wi-Fi relationships with Borders, FedEx Kinko’s outlets, numerous hotel chains and airport lounges.

 [PoliBlog (TM): A Rough Draft of my Thoughts] WiFi Changes Coming to Starbucks: First, WiFi gets you in the door, which is the first trick for any business and if one is in the door one is going to buy something. Then, once you are sitting there, sipping your coffee and surfing the web you find yourself drawn to the pastries behind the glass.

 [Bits] Cheaper Wi-Fi Access at Starbucks and Beyond: It says that you buy ONE cup of coffee once a month on a Starbucks Card and you can get 2 hours a day at any Starbucks in the United States, sounds pretty good to me. Sure, you can go to other places for free WiFi all day, but do indie cafes really want people writing their novel for 6 hours who buy one latte and using them as free office space?

 [Arizona Coffee] Starbucks to Offer Free Wi-Fi: it will give customers that use its Starbucks purchase card two hours of free wireless access per day. After that, it will cost $3.99 for a two-hour session.”

[Howard Lindzon] Starbucks Wireless Religion”¦Will it Help?: In the end, I am wrong about Starbucks and have been wrong since my first buy at $26. With my average on a bigger position now in the low 20’s, I am scooting.

[Neighborhood Notes] Starbucks to offer limited free WiFi service: Starbucks said it will phase in its new WiFi plan "on a market-by-market basis with store implementation beginning this spring and completed by the end of the year.""

 [Fam5 Blog] Starbucks and AT&T Combining Forces for W-Fi Access: Beginning this spring, Starbucks Card holders can enjoy up to two hours of free Wi-Fi service per day at Starbucks locations offering Wi-Fi access, while more than 12 million qualifying AT&T broadband and AT&T U-verseSM Internet customers will have unlimited free access to the Wi-Fi service. In addition, more than 5 million of AT&T’s remote access services business customers will be able to access Wi-Fi service at Starbucks locations.

 [The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)] Got AT&T? Starbucks delivers Wi Fi: Starbucks is dumping T-Mobile and serving you up a fresh heaping venti of Wi-Fi goodness. And what's the crema on that espresso?

[Bumble Bee Soft Blog] Starbucks switches to free AT&T Wi-Fi (AP): JJ Geise reads a paper as he treats himself to coffee and a baked good at AP - Starbucks Corp. and AT&T Inc. will start offering a mix of free and paid wireless Internet service in most of the global coffee retailer’s US shops, ...

 [Catherine's Flying Hamster Blog] Starbucks to Offer Free Wi Fi: is teaming up with AT&T Inc. and will start offering a mix of free and paid wireless Internet service in more than 7,000 of its U.S. coffee shops beginning this spring.”

 [MasterMaq's Blog] Starbucks to offer free Wi-Fi at most US locations: As an added benefit for the more than 100,000 Starbucks partners in the U.S., all Starbucks partners will receive free AT&T Wi-Fi accounts allowing them to use the network in Starbucks company-operated locations offering Wi-Fi access.

[Bumble Bee Soft Blog] Starbucks switches to free AT&T Wi-Fi (AP): and AT&T Inc. will start offering a mix of free and paid wireless Internet service in most of the international coffee retailer’s U.S. shops, beginning this spring.

 [The Business Blog at Intuitive.com] Starbucks gets a belated clue: free wifi coming soon!: "it will give customers that use its Starbucks purchase card two hours of free wireless access per day."Well, duh, Starbucks. Even the cook from the Pequod should have figured this one out by now (*).

[Brier Dudley's blog] Starbucks' free Wi-Fi: What took so long?: Starbucks was probably getting a cut of the $6 per hour or $40 per month that T-Mobile charged for wireless in its stores, but that pricey service was driving foot traffic to other stores. The arrangement made more sense in the early days of wireless when it was more expensive to provide the service, but those times have passed.

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