T-Mobile Web'N'Walk customers now get free Wi-FI access

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!