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Old Mar 11, 2019, 4:53 pm
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josephstern
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Originally Posted by The Situation
Tmobile customers already get an hour of free wifi so not much of a stretch to think that free wifi will be rolled out to everyone in the next few years. I have considered whether DL would add wifi as a perk for F/J customers, but those customers are also the most likely to pay for wifi, so that probably would not happen (plus doesn't most (if not all) of the revenue go to gogo, which would complicate matters - please don't quote me on that - it is something I have heard, but have no idea if its true).
T-Mobile's free Wifi is only for use on phones. (Yes, I know people manage to work around that restriction in various ways.)

Opening this up to laptops means that large downloads (or download attempts, anyway). I'm not sure the current infrastructure is really ready for this.
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