If you're in the centre of London and need an instant office...

[sbisson]

...the big Starbucks on the corner of Tottenham Court Road and New Oxford Street now has desks with power. I'm currently sat there in a gap between meetings, writing my monthly column.

(The wifi is still pay for, but at least you won't chew batteries).

Comments

[jaq.livejournal.com]

Can you not go to the Apple store?

[ajshepherd.livejournal.com]

Does the Apple Store do coffee? Bet it doesn't do cake!
Besides. How can they call it a 'Genius Bar' when it has no beer?

[ciphergoth.livejournal.com]

How much is wifi in these places?

And why don't hotels have free WiFi in the rooms, the moneygrubbing bastards? Actually I think I've just answered my own question.

[sbisson.livejournal.com]

What gets my goat is that the cheaper the hotel, the more likely it is to have free wifi.

[neilf.livejournal.com]

http://www.tmobile.co.uk/Dispatcher?menuid=business_im_hs_ctl&tab=cost for Tmobile's pricing. Starts at £5 for an hour and goes down from there the longer chunk of time you buy.

It's a little cheaper if you are a Tmobile customer as you can have the charges added to your bill. it's 75p per 10 minutes, which works out at £4.50 an hour but you only get billed in the 10 minute chunks.

Basically all of these hotspots are a complete rip-off.

- Neil.

[spride.livejournal.com]

Starbucks uses T-Mobile - fiver an hour.

[spride.livejournal.com]

No power, wrong end of Oxford St. Also using a PC in the AppleStore is coming it a bit much, frankly :-)

[sbisson.livejournal.com]

Actually I think sitting in there working for 3 hours would be more of a problem!

(I've seen several people sat in the cinema section with non-Apple machines leeching the wifi...)

[sbisson.livejournal.com]

I use a 3G card :-)

[budleysalterton.livejournal.com]

and my local pub (here outside the sigil odegra) has free wifi.

[ccomley.livejournal.com]

Hey that's great. Now you just need a decent supply of coffee!