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Starbucks and Bell team up for Wi-Fi

TORONTO - Bell Canada and Starbucks Coffee Canada announced they’ll make wireless Internet service available in Starbucks coffee shops across Canada. Company-operated Starbucks’ will offer Wi-Fi Internet access beginning with an Ontario rollout this week to 140 store. Rogers has had a similar service in place with Second Cup outlets since February of this year. Bell says the demand for this service was confirmed by the latest edition of the Bell Canada Consumer Survey, conducted by Ipsos Reid, which said that the number of Canadian wireless Internet users is expected to more than double over the next year - from...