Link: T-Mobile offers free Wi-Fi to subcribers  Netimperative
Mobile network operator T-Mobile is offering free access to a Wi-Fi network to its Web’n’walk subscribers.
As of today, the operator will give all new Web’n’walk mobile internet customers access to all T-Mobile Wi-Fi HotSpots at no extra charge.
For an extra £12.50 per month, on top of any Flext price plan, T-Mobile customers will now have access to both a 3G network nationwide, and what T-Mobile claims is the world’s largest Wi-Fi network.
This offers more than 39,000 Wi-Fi HotSpots across the globe (and 1200 HotSpots in the UK) including the Starbucks chain of coffee shops, airports and some rail services.
Well this is fantastic news. It’s about time.
I don’t know what it is with me.. I seem to be living in the future.
Witness my post on September 6th, 2006 — Getting rogered for 75p/min by T-Mobile HotSpot.
Fast forward 21 days to a survey by T-Mobile saying people want More access to Wi Fi.
The next month, T-Mobile announced unlimited usage of it’s Wi Fi network for a tenner a month for existing customers. This, I took advantage of. I’ve been a subscriber ever since.
I’ve not been that happy at having to pay T-Mobile even more cash for access to the internet, just because it’s via wireless internet as apposed to mobile data. If anything, I thought it should be much, much cheaper for T-Mobile to administer a network of wireless routers plugged into broadband sockets than it is to manage a huge range of base stations.
And well, there you go. Today – just over a year later, T-Mobile have made it free, provided you’re a 12.50/month Web’N’Walk subscriber.
Good news. I’m delighted!
Is this for NEW customers paying £12.50 per month…. or can existing customers paying £12.50 a month get free wifi as well?
I’ve just spoken to T-Mobile – it’s for new contracts only, not new Web ‘n’ Walk customers…
Thats a shame… As it means the people who already see the benefit of mobile data (and are paying for it) won’t get the benefit from this deal 🙁
I’m no longer a T-Mob customer, but that “brand new customers only” attitude REALLY grates me. As a marketer, I appreciate that hooks can be needed to get new people on the wagon, but Dog only knows how important loyal, existing customers are.
Loyalty is underrated by big companies that count on customer turnover to help them maintain their figures. Love your users and your users will love you, I says!
Web’N’Walk is a rip off
http://ripoffforum.org/topic/t-mobile-web-038-walk-rip-off