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Yay!!! Another place to drink coffee, surf on my Toshiba e805 and look at books!! (Ahhh, life can't get any better than this! )
An article from BusinessWire reports Barnes & Noble, Inc. the world's largest bookseller and Cometa Networks, Inc., a leading Wi-Fi (802.11) wholesale network provider, announced today an exclusive agreement to offer wireless Internet services at Barnes & Noble stores all across the country.
Barnes & Noble bookstores will be fully unwired as hotspots by Sept. 2004 via Cometa.
The Barnes & Noble deal has been well known since early 2003. For some reason, however, the execution has been severely delayed while Barnes & Noble’s leading competitor Borders was fully hotspotted by T-Mobile’s network. So while this adds a significant number of locations to Cometa (pushing them to nearly 1,000 publicly committed or unwired locations), it’s more of a confirmation of how long it takes to move from a deal starting to actually executing.
Barnes & Noble has 647 stores nationwide, and hasn’t quite regained the momentum it lost by trying to compete head to head against Amazon.com. Their online venture has done extremely poorly, never achieving more than a fraction of Amazon’s book sales. This move to add Wi-Fi is certainly an attempt to bring savvier users in.
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