Starbucks and AT&T- so long T-Mobile hotspots

Sbux_logoTmobile_logoThe new Starbucks near me still has no hotspot, it’s a new store so they are waiting for AT&T to install the equipment due to the coffee chain’s desertion from the T-Mobile camp.  Other Starbucks stores in my area are all still running T-Mobile hotspots but managers have been told that soon the switchover to AT&T will take place. I have been dutifully paying T-Mobile for unlimited hotspot service for years but now that I have to consciously think about which store I am going to visit so I know whether I’ll find T-Mobile or AT&T has gotten me to thinking which is always dangerous.  I have the T-Mobile hotspot service but the only places I’ve ever used them is in Starbucks shops.  Once they complete the switchover to AT&T I will no longer need the T-Mobile service and I’ll cancel it.  Will anyone in the US need the T-Mobile service once the Starbucks switchover is complete?

Att_logoBoingo_logoI don’t want to get AT&T hotspot service necessarily either.  I am seriously thinking of getting Boingo which has roaming agreements with hundreds of providers including AT&T.  Rather than pay AT&T for access to only their hotspots I’d rather pay roughly the same monthly fee to get access to all the AT&T hotspots plus all the others that Boingo can access.  If you have T-Mobile hotspot service now what are you going to do when Starbucks turns off that switch?

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