The Register® — Biting the hand that feeds IT

BT wins Starbucks Wi-Fi deal

Anonymous Coward

Crap coffee meets crap interent 

I'm assuming that they will be profiling all openzone traffic with Phorm? Yet another reason to avoid starbucks.

Rik Hemsley

I hope... 

...they have Phorm enabled!

N

Ugh! 

Phorm deformation tools at the ready

Simon Ward

So ... 

Flame

That'll be a skinny latte with extra Phorm, then ...

Richard Cartledge

Bucks for the star 

Thumb Down

Oo there's a pyramid in my eye!

Jon Green

OpenZone not an opt-out, it's an opt-in 

BT auto-updated our Business Broadband router a while ago. I checked the settings as soon as they had done it. The OpenZone facility was switched _off_. We would have had to have opted _in_ in order to enable it as a hotspot.

Maybe earlier versions of the update had it on by default, but that was not our experience.

Scott Wallace

O2 topup woes 

Unhappy

One hitch is that you need to be topped up with O2's PAYG mobile BB to get wifi access, and with https://mobilebroadbandaccess.o2.co.uk/ having currently gone on its holidays thats easier said that done!!

Law

cool 

Go

I quite like starbucks... not world-class coffee... but better than a greasy spoon cafe... and now I get the interwebs faster on my iphone at the same times!!... I'm quite glad I switched to o2 really - auto-logging into hotspots works so much easier than tmobile ever did(nt)...

I get better connectivity at work too, seems we have an o2 mast in countryside and tmobile didn't, which prompted the switch in the first place! :)

I may be the only person in the world who's had nothing but a positive experience with o2 if comments from previous threads are anything to go by... add to this I'm actually impressed with my recent Virgin Media installation and I think hell has finally frozen over!!

Anonymous Coward

Special coffee 

I'll have and Americana with NO Phorm of cream on top.

Mindless Geek

Oh goody 

I'll be able to take my son to starbucks rather than McDs in the future, do they do kiddy meals?

Greg Fleming

@ Law: Greasy Spoon? 

Happy

Personally, the best coffee I have ever had -- and that's saying a lot -- has been in greasy spoons, specifically one in Brighton (ironically right next door to a Starbucks) where I get free refills and a *real* mug, not a crap paper cup, all for the princely sum of 90 pence.

Coffee snobbery is very counter-productive. Greasy spoons (true ones) rule.

adamski

still being ripped-off 

Paris Hilton

Personally, I'll avoid any outlet where they still charge for wifi. There are planty enough free ones around so I tend to avoid *$

Any why is it, you can go to just about any airport abroad and get it free where in good old blighty, you have to pay through the nose?

Another example of rip-off brittain!!!!

Anonymous Coward

@crap coffee meets crap interent 

Ha ha - quite funny as I was coming in to make a comment with the exact same title (modulo the spelling mistake).

Anonymous Coward

Free WiFi at airports... not 

Stop

Err, adamski... I have no idea what you're going on about when it comes to airport WiFi. Most foreign ones don't seem to have it at all!

London City = free. Amsterdam Schipol = bloody expensive.

Where've you been flying?!