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T-Mobile wants you to still pay for that access with your latte

2008-06-07 11:06:54 by ashimmy in StillSecure, After All These Years

Starbucks, Cathedral Square, Peterborough, UK. A typical sales area in a Starbucks coffeehouse. Showing the till, preparation areas and sales displays.

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According to this article T-Mobile is none to happy about Starbucks and ATT offering free wi-fi to customers. They have filed suit against Starbucks, claiming that according an agreement between the three companies, the transition from T-Mobile's pay for access to the ATT free access was supposed to go at a much slower rate, only it seems ATT and Starbucks have rushed things through and T-Mobile is suing mad about the lost revenue.

T-Mobile should have seen this coming. The day the ATT deal was signed, any more revenue T-Mobile ground out of their Starbucks relationship was froth on the coffee. It is hard to beat free.

In my mind, taking Starbucks out of the T-mobile hotspot world, what is left? Some airports perhaps, but increasingly T-mobile is a 2nd or 3rd tier carrier in the US anyway.