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Starbucks lets iPhone users surf, free

So, the rumors had been floating around that because of Starbucks’s switch to AT&T for their Wi-Fi provider (ditching former partner-in-crime T-Mobile), iPhone users would be able to surf the web without paying a single dime. But anecdotal reports are not enough to sate this blogger—I needed first hand proof. And so I stopped by just outside of the Starbucks near my home—I’m not allowed inside anymore, after an unfortunate incident with a half-caf mocha latte—and fired up Safari. Sure enough, the screen at the left greeted me, asking me to enter my 10-digit phone number. I managed to scrounge that up from my increasingly unreliable memory and pop it in. Blammo—yes, that’s precisely the sound it made—I was online. For free! Don’t get me wrong: I’m not about to switch back to Starbucks just for the free iPhone Wi-Fi. After that traumatic coffee-related mishap, it just doesn’t feel safe to me, anymore. But it’s handy to know that the next time I’m stranded and the EDGE connection just isn’t cutting it, there’s somewhere I can turn. On every street corner. In the United States. Copyright Mac Publishing LLC. This RSS feed is for personal non-commercial use only. If you're not reading this material in your news aggregator, the site you're looking at is guilty of copyright infringement. Please contact webmaster@macworld.com so we can take legal action immediately.

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