Uncle Starbucks Wants You To Empty Your Pockets

By Aditi | February 11, 2008 10:06 pm |
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Yay Coffee! So let me get this straight, people are excited that Starbucks is switching its WiFi Hotspot service over to AT&T? Please, whatever these people are taking, I want some.

What’s my issue with all of this? Currently, I can go to Panera Bread or even McDonalds and get absolutely free access to their WiFi Hotspot. But if I want to go into Starbucks I have to pay for it? I think that is total bass ackwords and all these other blogs discussing how great this is need to start thinking for themselves.

If you go to your public library,  I’m going to assume they have free internet and perhaps even WiFi. Any college campus will be the same. The focus in advancing connecting to the internet is completely geared around providing access for entire towns in the future. Why on earth would a company charge for people for a service that will bring customers to their store? Apparently the do it because fools out there have no problem spending there money on it.

If you bleed Starbucks, you’ll probably want to know how much more you’ll be spending over your quad americano. You’ll be able to get 2 hours free with a Starbucks gift card, but after that it’ll run you either $3.99 for two hours or $19.99 for a month. If you’re one of those suckers that had previously subscribed to Starbucks T-Mobile hotspot service, AT&T is nice enough to transfer your contract over to them. Isn’t that sweet.

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