Has Sprint, gotten into the coffee business? Nah, actually Sprint is going to be offering Wi-Fi access to the Juan Valdez coffee shops themselves. Sounds a little remenisent of Starbucks, does it not?

After years of working to establish the Juan Valdez image as the symbol for Columbian coffee on supermarket store shelves, a federation of Columbian coffee growers is opening its first Juan Valdez coffeehouses, and has turned to Sprint to supply its communications services, including Wi-Fi access.

Although terms of the multiyear deal were not disclosed, Sprint has been tapped to deliver its Sprint Complete Access service, which includes Wi-Fi, Internet as well as local and long distance services, to the first two Juan Valdez shops in New York and Washington, D.C.