There'll be two fewer free and open hotspots in the metro soon-in fact, they may already be gone. The remaining Borders bookstore locations around town-the one Macenstein reviewed last November in Lee's Summit and the Olathe location-along with a Borders Express location over on Quivira Road in Johnson County that wasn't lit up are currently conducting their going-out-of-business sales. And according to Borders' website, the unwired 91st and Metcalf store closed in May (or was scheduled to). Whether the routers in the remaining stores have been turned off, I won't know until one of us (or one of you) drops by and finds out. Given that Borders was outsourcing its Wi-Fi to Verizon, it's likely they have gone cold for good.
Too bad. Maybe they should have abandoned play-for-pay and joined the free world sooner than they did, as I intimated in this post commemorating the fifth anniversary of "One Unwired Day" nearly three years back. It might have helped.
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