(keitai-l) Re: Starbucks wireless internet

http://lists.samba.org/pipermail/wireless/2001-June/002719.html

http://www.nwfusion.com/news/2001/0625starbucks.html


some more info

Arno

-----Original Message-----
From: Bruce Davis [mailto:bruce.davis@imagination.com]
Sent: Dienstag, 19. Februar 2002 14:15
To: keitai-l@appelsiini.net
Subject: (keitai-l) Re: Starbucks wireless internet



It was tried in the US in conjunction with a WASP - the name escapes me.
anyhow it was pulled after a few months. classic case of great idea with
unsure business model. perhaps a bit ahead of its time in terms of old
802.11b? be interested if anyone actually used it.

bruce

awamuras wrote:
> 
> I dont think you can do this in Japan. I go to a starbucks nearby and
asked
> them about wi-fi or wireless internet and they have no idea.
> 
> There are coffee shops in the big cities though that have installed
wireless
> internet LANs but i doubt starbucks has anything like it...especially
where
> Im from.
> 
> Virgil
> 
> on 2/19/02 9:00 PM, Mathieu Tozer at mathieut@mac.com wrote:
> 
> >
> > I heard that in the US Starbucks stores people with an account can
> > network with a base station, and use the internet etc though their
> > laptops. Does anyone know anything about this and whether they have this
> > is Japan?
> > -Mathieu
> >
> >
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