Macbook and 10.5.2+Boingo/T-Mobile hotspot=no go?

Or is it just me?

I've never connected to any T-Mobile spot.
Are they supposed to be contracted with Boingo?
I didn't think they were hence I never had access at Starbucks.
Happily the latter is changing soon. Cheers, Travis
P.S. The new Boingo database software for Core 2 Duos is in beta. Yeah!

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