Thursday, May 1, 2008

AT&T begins Starbucks rollout

AT&T and Starbucks plan to start offering their joint Wi-Fi service May 1 in San Antonio, the corporate headquarters of AT&T. By the end of 2008, AT&T said it would be offering Wi-Fi at all company-operated Starbucks stores.

After a six-year run with T-Mobile providing fee-based Wi-Fi access in its 7,000 coffee shops, Starbucks announced in February that AT&T would be its new carrier for wireless service. The ubiquitous chain is also brewing up a new deal for Wi-Fi customers: up to 2 hours of free Wi-Fi service per day.

In addition, all Starbucks partners will receive free Wi-Fi accounts allowing them to use the network in Starbucks company-operated locations. AT&T said more than 12 million qualifying AT&T broadband and AT&T U-verse Internet customers will have unlimited free access to Starbucks’ Wi-Fi service.

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