A quick review of a Wi-Fi service I’m trying for the first time:
SBC FreedomLink is the service at Carribou Coffee on Broadway Street on the north side of Chicago. So far it’s cruising along quite fast, and the registration page was quick and easy.
At $3.95 for two hours the pricing isn’t too bad. I’m still not entirely convinced the pay Wi-Fi is the way for venues such as coffee shops to go, but the SBC pricing beats the hell out of T-Mobile or other providers’ pay-as-you-go pricing I’ve experienced.
Also, any number of European Wi-Fi providers (Swisscom EuroSpot, BT OpenZone, are you listening?) could learn from how simple it was to buy time with this service– just enter the credit card info and away you go. Sweet.
