Starbucks began provide coffee juicer a way to get free Wi - Fi admission at its shops on Tuesday , but some customer had a hard meter cash in .
That ’s because some people were unable to get at Starbucks’Card Rewards WWW sitein order to sign up for the program , which offers two hours of spare Wi - Fi access per day to participant .
Some visitant to the land site were greeted with a pop - up windowpane stating : “ Due to overpowering interest group in Card Rewards we are currently experience difficulty accessing Starbucks Card accounts . We are working to furbish up the problem and enquire that you please test again later . ”
Starbucks herald the novel program on Tuesday . People were advance to visit the Card Rewards entanglement page to either purchase a new rewards card for US$ 5 or to register an subsist gift poster to be part of the broadcast . Users who sign up before July 14 will get a free swallow , and everyone who signs up can expend two hours of AT&T Wi - Fi access in Starbucks shop class free every day .
In gild to get the two destitute hour every day , Card Rewards program users must bribe something with the card at least once a calendar month .
A Starbucks spokesman said that the problem were on Starbucks ’ end , not AT&T ’s . “ customer overwhelmed the site when joining Starbucks Card Rewards , ” say Doug Cavarocchi , a Starbucks spokesman , in an einsteinium - mail . The problem begin in the morning and was solved by midday on the West Coast .
The problem affected visitant in the U.S. and Canada trying to sign on on to Starbucks.com with a drug user name and parole , he said , although other users taste to bless up for the political platform also see the error subject matter .
The programme follows Starbucks ’ announcement in February that it would begin using AT&T as the supplier of in - store Wi - Fi service . For now , T - Mobile go forward to operate Wi - Fi connection in some of the stores . Starbucks say that it plans to roll out A&T Wi - Fi in all of its U.S. stores by the end of this twelvemonth .
The program also follows the launch of theMy Starbucks IdeaWeb site , where anyone can post trace for betterment Starbucks might make and vote on other mind . A week after the launch of the site , which was built on a hosted offer from Salesforce.com , the number one suggestion was to offer detached drinks , and figure two was to provide free Wi - Fi .
