FREE WiFi

frumpsta

Not quite sure where to post the below as a spend is required. I spend a lot with "The Cloud", T-Mobile and BT Openworld in well known coffee stores so i can access work via wifi when on the road. This is a huge leap forward and i just hope that others follow suit. The below comes from their website at www.coffeerepublic.com

Again apologies if this is not quite the right place please move it if neccesary.

Coffee Republic announced today that from 1 May 2008, free wireless Internet access will be available for customer use across the majority of its UK coffee bar estate. The launch will see Coffee Republic become the UK’s first coffee chain to provide Wi-Fi free of charge to its customers. The new service is aimed at providing Coffee Republic’s broad customer base with added-value to the service they receive in the Bars; from business professionals looking for a comfortable ‘mobile office’, to students looking for a leisurely place to download music or work on a project. The offer also represents significant savings for regular Wi-Fi users. Currently, the UK boasts several ‘hotspots’ but the majority are pay-as-you-go or contract services which means customers could be paying up to £4.50 an hour* to use the technology. By using the new service at Coffee Republic, which is linked to a purchase, customers who use Wi-Fi for an hour a week could be saving themselves up to £234 a year.

indelacio

grabbit if anything possibly but definately not here, there are other boards more suitable.

saintscouple

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ioscorpio

Not exactly free, as they expect you to buy something whilst using their access to WIFI.

JohalaReewi

frumpsta wrote: »

Coffee Republic announced today that from 1 May 2008, free wireless Internet access will be available for customer use across the majority of its UK coffee bar estate. The launch will see Coffee Republic become the UK’s first coffee chain to provide Wi-Fi free of charge to its customers...

Guess they haven't heard of Starbucks?

Bongedone

Wetherspoons have removed the need for a username and password now as well.

frumpsta

JohalaReewi wrote: »

Guess they haven't heard of Starbucks?

Heard of them, been in two today and they are not free..!! the WiFi is all via T-Mobile which costs a fortune per hour.

Plus the coffee is not up to much.:D

Edinburghlass_2

McDonalds is free

JohalaReewi

frumpsta wrote: »

Heard of them, been in two today and they are not free..!! the WiFi is all via T-Mobile which costs a fortune per hour.

Plus the coffee is not up to much.:D

I stand corrected. I thought starbucks offered free wifi to their customers.

Browntoa

if you are a BT Total Broadband customer and sign up for BT FON then its free at any Openzone or FON hotspot

Superesspresso

Coffee Republics Free WIFI offer from the May 1st is amazing, I will stop my subscriptions now and get online free when I get a coffee which I would buy anyway. Well Done Coffee republic