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Free wi-fi with your Pret duck wrap

15th December 2008

by Lilly Peel

Today you can wander into any large branch of Pret A Manger, pull out your laptop or your iPod Touch and enjoy a free wi-fi connection along with your latte. It really is free, not “buy something and then have free wi-fi” or free for half an hour. You do not even need a password.

While some independent cafés have been offering their customers free wireless internet as an added perk for several years, most of the big retail chains have been slower to catch up. Preferring instead to sign up with expensive internet providers and foist the charge on the consumer, Starbucks and Caffè Nero, for example, have deals with T-Mobile and BT Openzone, respectively, which charge as much as £5 for an hour's surfing.

Read the full article in The Times here