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One of the perks of purchasing an OLPC laptop was that T-mobile offers a year of free Internet access at their hotspots in Borders and Starbucks. When the OLPC foundations send you the "order has shipped" email, you have to click on the numeric IP address link in that message to activate the account.

I tested this access briefly today in the Borders and Starbucks locations in West Lafayette. The hotspot access worked quite well, though I had to use the normal login via HTTPS web form through an unauthenticated access point, rather than WPA, since the OLPC can't yet do username+password authentication to an access point. While in Starbucks, a girl asked me some questions about who made the laptop and what it was. This is definitely another benefit of ownership :^) .