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Hi folks
All this stuff will probably be a moot point now 4G is being rolled out -- at least here in Europe -- the 4G service beats the cr@p out of the standard public 3G Wifi services -- and most phone contracts over here offer free Wi-Fi service (where available) . For instance in the UK some phone contracts offer BT's Wi-Fi service which has pretty good UK coverage while if you are a subscriber to things like Virgin or SKY you can also get access to their free Wifi services -- I think SKY's is called something like _CLOUD and it seems to be available almost anywhere I travel in the UK.
In France I think ORANGE has a pretty reliable national Wifi service too.
These services really make the reliance on Wifi outlets in stores etc a lot less necessary. (Note that these Wi-Fi services can be used with laptops and tablets as well as your phone and aren't riddled with commercials --that gets really annoying when I'm doing things --I HATE unsolicited commercials if I'm not WARNED that these are there to support the cost of the free service first ).
IMO if you want to "socialize" then I can't understand why one would go into an Internet café in the first place so I don't think that's the reason people go there for hours at a time without purchasing anything.
Anyway when you can get access to 4G --try it -- it's amazing.
Cheers
jimbo