WIFI at Starbucks

WiFi at Starbucks requires sharing wireless access among customers spending time at the cafe.
Once customers sit down at a table, they access one of the channels on the router which must use some algorithm for deciding how to allocate capacity. In the new model what will this be?

from Starbucks news release on Feb. 11, 2008 — AT&T and Starbucks today announced plans to deliver AT&T Wi-Fi service at more than 7,000 company-operated Starbucks locations across the United States... Starbucks and AT&T will offer a mix of free and paid Wi-Fi offerings at Starbucks stores to meet the needs of both frequent and occasional Starbucks Wi-Fi customers...Beginning this spring, Starbucks Card holders can enjoy up to two hours of free Wi-Fi service per day at Starbucks locations offering Wi-Fi access, while more than 12 million qualifying AT&T broadband and AT&T Internet customers will have unlimited free access to the Wi-Fi service. In addition, more than 5 million of AT&T’s remote access services business customers will be able to access Wi-Fi service at Starbucks locations...