I've recently convinced my barbers to offer free wifi, because when I'm sat waiting for my few remaining strands to be trimmed it would be nice to browse, slightly selfish I suppose. It was already inplace and he was paying for it, so why not offer it to his customers, so my wait is a little more bearable during busy periods.
Originally he had concerns of people downloading big stuff or hacking etc. I said if you change your password regularly, you know your customers as they need to ask for the password, so I would be amazed if anyone sat waiting for a haircut could do any damage in 5 to 10 minutes.
I'm quite chuffed with myself on converting my local barbers. I can google to my hearts content.
Tuesday, July 5, 2011
Frustratingly...
I'm sitting in the cafe area of the local sports centre waiting for my son to finish his swimming lesson. I've just paid best part of a fiver for a soggy oatmeal biscuit and a cup of tea that needs an industrial press to squeeze any sort of colour out of the tea bag let alone any flavor.
So this experience is dull to say the least (bit like my tea) so what do I do? I dig out the iphone and do some browsing, maybe check some emails, twitter or facebook.
Can't get a 3G signal so let's see what wifi is on offer... it then proceeds to tell me it's £3.50 for an hour of browsing ... Three pounds bloody fifty are you havin a tin bath? I don't understand it. I don't understand when any type of "public sit down relax cup of tea" environment doesn't offer free wifi. I've been offering free wifi for nearly 3 years now. I've always needed it for the business, broadband was an overhead we had even before it was available over wifi and it's dramatically come down in cost over the years. So to charge £3.50 is a blatant piss take. So I'm sat watching that small white catherine wheel of a timer going round and round and round...
So this experience is dull to say the least (bit like my tea) so what do I do? I dig out the iphone and do some browsing, maybe check some emails, twitter or facebook.
Can't get a 3G signal so let's see what wifi is on offer... it then proceeds to tell me it's £3.50 for an hour of browsing ... Three pounds bloody fifty are you havin a tin bath? I don't understand it. I don't understand when any type of "public sit down relax cup of tea" environment doesn't offer free wifi. I've been offering free wifi for nearly 3 years now. I've always needed it for the business, broadband was an overhead we had even before it was available over wifi and it's dramatically come down in cost over the years. So to charge £3.50 is a blatant piss take. So I'm sat watching that small white catherine wheel of a timer going round and round and round...
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