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Coffee Giant Turns To AT&T For Wireless Service

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The Tampa Tribune

Published: February 12, 2008

Starbucks is joining AT&T to provide wireless Internet access in most of its U.S. stores.

The new partnership - which replaces T-Mobile as the Wi-Fi hotspot provider - is expected to be in effect this spring.
Starbucks said it will give customers who use a Starbucks card two hours of free wireless access per day. More time than that will cost $3.99 for a two-hour session. Monthly memberships will cost $19.99 and include access to any of AT&T's 70,000 hot spots worldwide. Last month, AT&T announced plans to make its 10,000 Wi-Fi hot spots free to nearly all of its broadband Internet customers. The move expanded access to include subscribers who have a lower tier of high-speed Internet service.

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•Nearly all of AT&T's broadband Internet customers, about 12 million, will automatically have unlimited free Wi-Fi access at Starbucks
•The deal boosts the number of AT&T hot spots in the United States to 17,000.

•Starbucks will begin rolling it out this spring and aims to have it available in its more than 7,000 company-operated domestic stores by the end of the year.

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