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7,000 stores to launch the service on May 1st
12:09PM Saturday Apr 26 2008 by KathrynV
tags: business · wireless · telco · AT&T Southeast · AT&T Midwest · AT&T Southwest
Back in February, AT&T announced that the company would be taking over T-Mobile’s hot spots inside of Starbucks locations across the nation. The rollout of that service has begun with San Antonio stores already receiving service; AT&T Wi-Fi access is planned to launch in 7,000 additional Starbucks stores on May 1st. The rollout will continue on a market-by-market basis throughout the year to the additional 10,000+ American stores. The service is a combination of paid and free wireless connection depending primarily on whether you’re already an AT&T U-Verse or broadband customer or will be a pay-as-you-go customer. T-mobile reminds its customer that their Starbucks service will remain unaffected for the next five years.

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patcat88

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AT&T Begins Rollout of Starbucks Wi-Fi

Any idea which markets will get it on May 1st?

Latte

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ATT & Starbucks

ATT wi-fi @ Starbucks has been working in various spots in Calif for several weeks for me:

-Laptop w/ wifi on, open browser, type in t-mobil.com.
-Page appears with T-Mobile log-in screen AND an AT&T login button.
-ATT login button opens window for sign-on with ATT dsl account info.
-Your online.

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Re: ATT & Starbucks

said by Latte :

ATT wi-fi @ Starbucks has been working in various spots in Calif for several weeks for me:

-Laptop w/ wifi on, open browser, type in t-mobil.com.
-Page appears with T-Mobile log-in screen AND an AT&T login button.
-ATT login button opens window for sign-on with ATT dsl account info.
-Your online.
Ditto for me. I don't know if the coming roll out is what we've already seen or a complete replacement of the current landing page.

I'm also very curious about wether they're replacing their back haul. As I understand it the T-Mobile sites are currently served by expensive and relatively slow T1 connections. As AT&T is also an ISP in a large part of the footprint one would think they'd use their own DSL lines.

I wonder why T-Mobile never used the Starbucks relationship to broaden their cellular footprint? A pico-cell on every Starbucks would have gone a long way.
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Re: ATT & Starbucks

Same here, the 3 SB's in OC I frequent have ATT up and running and works great!

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Re: ATT & Starbucks

Well agin, I think theyre currently just accepting both logins.
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Free.

Starbucks announced on a new website of theirs that their WiFi will be free this year. Time to update the article.
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Re: Free.

From Starbucks.com:

"Complimentary Wi-Fi for Starbucks customers When you register your Starbucks Card and use it at least once a month, you'll receive two consecutive hours a day of complimentary Wi-Fi, courtesy of AT&T."

"Complimentary Wi-Fi for AT&T DSL customers AT&Ts more than 12 million DSL customers already qualify for free Wi-Fi at their neighborhood Starbucks." (this is functioning now in Calif.)

"Competitive pricing for paid Wi-Fi All other customers can receive two consecutive hours of Wi-Fi access for $3.99."

"Current T-Mobile subscribers Continue to enjoy full internet access at Starbucks stores , through a roaming agreement with AT&T. T-Mobile customers will not incur extra charges to use the Starbucks/AT&T network."
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Kyle

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Re: Free.

the part about them giving the Wifi away for free was not on Starbucks.com it was on their ideas site.

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Yeah if it works

Was in the airport and AT&T wifi refused to let me register through my iPod Touch.
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Changeover

Anyone have any idea on what is involved with the changeover? Is the entire T-Mobile setup (router, wifi access points, etc) being pulled & replaced?
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jerry shenk

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free wifi at small coffee shops

almost all the "little coffee shops" offer wireless for free. So does Panera Breads which is one of Starbucks' competitors.

When I'm looking for a wifi connection, I typically pull up google maps on my Treo, and search for "coffee shop" in my area. I think I've gotten free wifi every time for months.

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Re: free wifi at small coffee shops

said by jerry shenk :

almost all the "little coffee shops" offer wireless for free. So does Panera Breads which is one of Starbucks' competitors.

When I'm looking for a wifi connection, I typically pull up google maps on my Treo, and search for "coffee shop" in my area. I think I've gotten free wifi every time for months.
Ugh not a fan of free wi-fi. Starbucks is ALREADY over crowded... now with free wifi it'll be impossible to get a chair let alone an outlet. I'd rather pay!
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Priorities?

I would rather see AT&T fix their email server problems.
I don't need another route to get to their "half working" email servers!

RobinMI

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Starbucks better take out the "ifs and buts"

With Starbucks stock at an all time low as customers shun the idea of paying for $4 coffees, they had better just give free WiFi access to ANY customer willing to pay them the $4.

The other coffee shops I now frequent (as opposed to Starbucks because I've found better alternatives) mostly offer free WiFi.

If Starbucks wants to reinvent itself for its shareholders, they better start with looking at the competition, which DOES offer free WiFi without any ifs, and, or buts. No card punches required.

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Re: Starbucks better take out the "ifs and buts"

said by RobinMI :

With Starbucks stock at an all time low as customers shun the idea of paying for $4 coffees, they had better just give free WiFi access to ANY customer willing to pay them the $4.

The other coffee shops I now frequent (as opposed to Starbucks because I've found better alternatives) mostly offer free WiFi.

If Starbucks wants to reinvent itself for its shareholders, they better start with looking at the competition, which DOES offer free WiFi without any ifs, and, or buts. No card punches required.
I do agree. I do not like the 14 year old crowd in the places here in NJ. My opinion - you do NOT need damn coffee that young -I wasn't even allowed out at even that age -let alone caffeine. Or a laptop.
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tivoboy

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Re: Starbucks better take out the "ifs and buts"

This has been working for a few months now in Norcal, the little icon in the upper right corner directing ATT customers to login. Takes you to a second login page and then back to authentication on t-mobile. I haven't been able to get it to work at the ATT airports, like ORD yet though.

Since I have ATT dsl, AND a starbucks card, I guess it is going to still be free.

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said by RobinMI :

With Starbucks stock at an all time low as customers shun the idea of paying for $4 coffees, they had better just give free WiFi access to ANY customer willing to pay them the $4.
I haven't seen anyone shunning anything, the lines at every Starbucks I know of (and I am a heavy user) are longer than ever.
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