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Starbucks: Free Wi-Fi at 6,700 US sites
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CHICAGO – Starbucks Corp. will begin offering unlimited free Wi-Fi at all of its company-operated U.S. locations next month, part of an ongoing effort to bring more customers in the door.
The free wireless Internet will be available July 1 at about 6,700 locations.
The coffee house, which recorded its first quarterly increase in customers in 13 quarters earlier this year, had previously offered two free hours of Web access each day to registered customers.
After that, consumers at the Seattle chain were charged a small fee.
Access will continue to be offered through AT&T. But it won't require a Starbucks loyalty card, according to the announcement Monday by CEO Howard Schultz, who spoke at a conference in New York.
Good news for travelers looking for free wi-fi when traveling in the U.S.
Forget about only the U.S., I think more Starbucks exist in Shanghai than NYC. There is even a Starbucks at Badaling at the Great Wall. This is great news. I never understood why they didn't offer it free of charge, the more I sit in your store, the more likely I am to buy more stuff.
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good news (except for those of us on at&t as we got it anyway thru and arrangement between *b's and at&t) but wasn't this supposed to happen some time ago?
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