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Join Date: Apr 2001
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Free AT&T Wi-Fi Access for iPhones
![]() A couple of readers have reported that AT&T hotspots are now offering free Wi-fi access to iPhone users. AT&T Wi-Fi hotspots at Barnes and Noble as well as Starbucks are now offering iPhone users a custom portal to access free Wi-fi. A special iPhone formatted page asks for your mobile phone number. Once entered, you can access the Wi-fi access for free. Blurry photo provided: MacRumors has been able to confirm this finding at a local Barnes and Noble. ![]() AT&T recently partnered with Starbucks to provide Wi-fi access to Starbucks' 7000 stores nationwide. This partnership allowed existing AT&T broadband customers free access and AT&T promised that it would "soon extend the benefits of Wi-Fi at Starbucks to its wireless customers", but no official announcement has yet been made. Article Link Last edited by arn : Apr 30, 2008 at 08:24 PM. |
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Join Date: Feb 2003
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Awesome, finally a benefit from having AT&T&T&T!!
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Join Date: Oct 2007
Location: Boston
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Where was this found? What state(s)?
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It seems that iPhone users get the best deal when going to Starbucks then. What with access to the custom iTunes Store, and now this. Nice deal if you ask me.
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Join Date: Dec 2007
Location: U-S of A
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Definitely a plus for iPhone owners. I don't think this will be a plan-switcher for most :/
Can't wait to get mine though!
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I thought if you owned an iPhone you automatically had wifi access as part of your AT&T service?
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Join Date: Mar 2002
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Join Date: Mar 2008
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A side bit of goodness is that I am an AT&T DSL customer who happens to also own an iPod touch (not iPhone). In any event, I went by Starbucks today discovered the AT&T Wi-Fi connection in my settings, chose that, input my AT&T email address and password, and woila, FREE Wi-Fi on my iPod touch. Very cool.
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Join Date: Jan 2005
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Is this going to let iPhone users from across the world use AT&T Wi-Fi for free? For instance, if I was to visit New York and go to Starbucks, could my O2 iPhone log on for free. I doubt it myself, but I was just wondering how it is going to differentiate between the two. Or will just be based on the iPhone's browser user agent?
EDIT: I've just realised you need to log in with an AT&T username and password. Duh. |
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Join Date: Apr 2008
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Houston
It came up in Houston last weekend (4/26-27) but I've got t-mobile and couldn't use it -- the login screen came up automatically but didn't take my t-mobile #. Guess if you've got an unlocked iPhone it's edge only at Starbucks (didn't seem to be any way around the 'free ATT iphone' login screen to use an alternate wifi access account).
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very nice! i'll have a stop at starbucks tomorrow and see if its here in Chicagoland yet.
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Join Date: Mar 2005
Location: NJ
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soo cool!
can I use my cell number for Wi-Fi on my laptop, or just the iPhone?
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Join Date: Jul 2003
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I always use EDGE at my local Starbucks here in Acton, MA. But this morning I got the said page on my iPhone with Free WiFi access. Sweeeeeet!
![]() I was going to post it here - but I guess I was a little late :-P
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Join Date: May 2007
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Great!!!
I just keep getting more and more value out of this freaking awesome phone!!! All things non-Apple just suck!
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Join Date: Sep 2006
Location: a country with a new sense of hope
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a nice little perk . . .
. . . if only i drank coffee . . .
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Wirelessly posted (Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; U; CPU like Mac OS X; en) AppleWebKit/420.1 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/3.0 Mobile/4A102 Safari/419.3)
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Join Date: Oct 2007
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Does anybody know if the wifi can be accessed with an ipod touch?
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Join Date: Jun 2007
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I'm going to try it out tomorrow =)
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Join Date: Sep 2007
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Going to stop at Starbucks soon here in South FL and check it out.
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Join Date: Jun 2005
Location: Orange County, CA
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what?!?!?! no @^$*$# way. this is awesome news.
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Join Date: Jul 2003
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I don't drink coffee... Always get my No-Water Soy Chai
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Seen it
I was at Starbucks on Saturday and saw this. Totally awesome. But I thought I would mention that the first time I got an error and it went to a T-Mobile error page. I guess AT&T is using the old T-Mobile Hotspots.
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Join Date: Nov 2005
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Has anyone tried User Agent -> Mobil Safari 1.1.3 -- iPhone? That should allow you to get it.
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