1,200 Starbucks offer wireless jolt - Tech News - CNET.com
Starbucks is now serving up high-speed wireless Internet access at about 1,200 of its coffee shops, the company said Wednesday.

The Seattle-based coffee shop operator has surrounded the shops with a local area network supplied by T-Mobile, which is the wireless division of Germany's Deutsche Telekom, and computer maker Hewlett-Packard, the three companies said in a joint statement.

The three aim to offer the wireless Net access at up a total of 2,000 cafes in the United States as well as Europe, including Berlin and London, by the end of the year.

Hewlett-Packard is offering free software, so that notebooks and handhelds with wireless antennas can sniff out the coffee shop networks via the Starbucks Web site.
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T-Mobile will act as the Internet service provider for a fee but will give free 24-hour trials to first-time users.
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