Starbucks Wi-Fi Hotspots are now AT&T, not T-mobile

According to Wi-Fi Networking News, AT&T has apparently co-opted T-mobile’s deal with Starbucks to provide Wi-Fi access to coffee addicts.

This is a huge step up in the world of Wi-Fi for AT&T, who have previously been off the map as far as I’m concerned. I don’t typically do a whole lot of travel productivity at McDonalds.

In fact, I’ve always camped out at Tully’s when I need wi-fi; it’s free there.

He also adds:

T-Mobile HotSpot subscribers will still be able to access Starbucks locations. Starbucks posted a separate press release stating that T-Mobile will be a roaming partner onto the AT&T network through a side deal; no additional cost is involved. There’s some leverage here, because T-Mobile does have about 2,000 other locations, including some premium airports like San Francisco. Existing roaming/aggregation deals among Boingo, AT&T, and T-Mobile were partly predicated on the airport market, where millions of subscribers to each network pass through each year.

Which I cant quite decipher. It sounds like there’s some possibility that AT&T customers get to use T-Mobile hotspots at airports, and T-Mobile customers get to use AT&T hotspots at Starbucks?

Check out the post for more details.