12-01-2017 09:35 via theguardian.com

Battle lines drawn in the wifi wars – but is a truce possible?

Forget Brexit and Trump – last year’s real hostilities were between cafe owners and freeloaders hogging the wifi. We are brokering peace talksIt was the year in which the wifi war broke out: cafe owners finally called time on freeloading freelancers exploiting their internet connections while nursing a single coffee for hours on end. In the age of flexible and remote working, the sight of a lone worker at a laptop in a coffee shop has become a symbol of our times. Yet independent cof
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