I'm sitting in a Starbucks in Chicago working on the new AT&T wireless setup here...thanks, in part to the Starbucks Ideas, AT&T partnered with Starbucks (or, was that the other way around?) to offer 2 free hours of wifi per day with a registered sbux card (I'm sure that certain restrictions apply...). I've been a T-mobile customer for the past year, only because they had the relationship with Sbux... I'm going to drop T-mobile as soon as my agreement is up next month, as I now have no use for them whatsoever.

I still remain a hardcore Boingo fan. The $21.95/month for Boingo has saved me hundreds in Wifi fees at hotels, coffee shops, airports and nearly everywhere else that you can use Boingo. It's really a shame that Boingo hasn't been able to get in cahoots with AT&T or T-mobile (at least not where I'm sitting... Boingo is not a roaming provider option).

Actually, this whole post was prompted by the guy sitting next to me that was just checking in to see if the Wifi was working OK. He's a contractor responsible for shutting down and taking out the Tmobile equipment and finalizing the setup on the AT&T stuff. What a dude. Came by, made sure eveyrthing was cool, checked signal strength & everything (the AT&T stuff works better over the past few weeks than the Tmobile stuff ever has... They must be doing something right!)

Thanks Starbucks & AT&T!