When Starbucks announced last year that they were closing down a heap of their stores, we commented on how this would effect the free wireless internet access, the only thing that would inspire us to walk into a Starbucks in the first place. Well, turns out the arrangement with Telstra soured completely, and now iiNet has stepped in to fill the void by offering free Wi-Fi for their customers in 20 Starbucks stores around the country.According to Dan Warne over at APC, iiNet customers can login with their user name and get up to 100MB free. Non iiNet customers will need to see how much it costs “in-store”. But if the costs involve drinking Starbucks coffee, then I guess I’ll stick to using my mobile broadband USB card…
[APC]