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Irvine, Calif.'s Toshiba America starts membership to wireless hotspots.
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, July, 2004
By Tamara Chuang, The Orange County Register, Calif. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Jul. 14--Walk into Natale Coffee in Santa Ana with your portable computer and, for a few bucks, you can surf the Web using the store's wireless Wi-Fi Internet service. Or, if you prefer, spend $16.95 for a monthly pass.
But if you want to use the Wi-Fi service at The UPS Store in Irvine, your Natale subscription is no good. UPS depends on somebody else to provide its Wi-Fi access. At Juice it Up in Santa Ana? That requires yet another subscription to a third company.
"The best thing by far would be if someone could come in and use one central service," said Rob Pedregon, Natale's manager. "That would be the ultimate." The one-subscription-fits-all...
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