AT&T's free iPhone WiFi is (update: was) live at last
Despite AT&T's best attempts at completely failing its free WiFi promises eternally, iPhone owners can finally fire up Mobile Safari in their local Starbucks, or, um, that one other place we heard about with AT&T WiFi, and get browsing. Of course, that's not to say the service won't crash horribly in the next 10 minutes, but at least AT&T stuck by its word, and can now move on to more pressing issues.Update: Yeah, turns out this isn't true, and AT&T has pulled the page. Free WiFi? That's just silly.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
dave malouf @ Jul 18th 2008 11:59AM
So I just tried to go to the AT&T site and well the entire Internet Connectivity section is RFC error prone right now. I can't find out anything. :(
I bet we are all getting screwed again!
digitalrio @ Jul 18th 2008 12:29PM
Yes we are... CNET just updated this story as not true and the web page has been removed!!!
Second time is a charm!!!
David Malouf @ Jul 18th 2008 1:32PM
Well at least it not showing 404 pages any longer. it is not taking you to the sitemap.
ShaneD @ Jul 18th 2008 1:35PM
It working here at the Starbucks in Laguna Hills.
And what do you mean 'that one other place'? Now that they have Starbucks, McDonalds, Barnes & Noble, Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf, and some hotels and airports, I am finding ATT hotspots WAY more often than I find TMobile ones.
Other than Kinkos and Borders (which are not as readily available as Starbucks and McDonalds) I rarely see Tmobile anymore.
Then if you want to sign up for a paid account, they add roaming partners which ups the total to 71,000 hotspots worldwide. Tmobile's partners offer up 45,000 spots worldwide. And I used to be a TMobile hotspot subscriber, and I will tell you that their plans were more expensive than AT&T's. ATT offers $7.99 per 24 hours if you don'y have a iphone or account, TMobile is $9.99 per day. ATT also offers 2 hours for $3. Tmobile is $6 for 1 hr.
And if you want the unlimited plan, ATT offers worldwide unlimited for $19.99 per month. Tmobile's is $29.99 per month and if you are outside the US you have to apy an additional roaming charge of .10-.25 cents per minute when using a partners' network.
And to top it all off, if you are a ATT DSL subscriber, you can get the worldwide Premier membership for $9.99, or even free if you have the ATT DSL Elite package.
ATT was late to the Hot Spot game, but they have blown TMobile away in the last year. And the fact that it's free for iphone's is icing on the cake!
bernardino @ Jul 18th 2008 4:20PM
If you have an AT&T DSL account with at least a 1.5 Mbps connection you can use AT&T hotspots for free! I was in San Francisco a month ago and my hotel had AT&T wifi. I didn't have AT&T DSL but my parents did, so I logged in with their info and it worked, tee hee!