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AT&T's Free Wi-Fi Hotspot Access for iPhones Finally Announced?

btcutter said:
If the Damned 3G would work as promised, no iphone 3G owners would really need Wifi.
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Not sure where you are, but I was getting very good 3G performance today here in Northern Virginia.

But WiFi is still faster, particularly here at home obviously, but isn't that what you would expect?
 
xraydoc said:
Geez! Can AT&T do nothing right?

How does this keep happening!? How could a whole web page be designed - with details about a certain service - and put in place, only to have someone else pull it and claim "mistake." Clearly at AT&T the right hand doesn't know what the left hand is doing.

I hope Apple is making a lot of money from AT&T, because AT&T's making Apple look the fool.
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Apple are doing just fine on their own. They already made themselves look the fool by designing a web page touting exaggerated push features of MobileMe. They quietly rewrote the page after the launch.

Not to mention:
  • Lack of iPhone stock
  • MobileMe launch fiasco
  • Premature charges for free MobileMe trials
  • Cracks in the white iPhones
  • Unstable and slow operation of version 2.0 software
  • ...
 
btcutter said:
If the Damned 3G would work as promised, no iphone 3G owners would really need Wifi.
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Power consumption and speed is better on Wifi. Even Apple's ideal conditions 3G is 50% slower. I think it's in AT&T's best interest to provide free WiFi to help them manage the data load on their towers.
 
JeffDM said:
Power consumption and speed is better on Wifi. Even Apple's ideal conditions 3G is 50% slower. I think it's in AT&T's best interest to provide free WiFi to help them manage the data load on their towers.
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This is true. Perhaps the evolution of Wi-Max will solve all problems here.
 
Until this really happens...

I hope that sometime in the future AT&T gets this up and running. Until then, I use two hours a day free at any Starbucks by simply purchasing one beverage per month on my registered Starbucks card. I'm not a Starbucks PR stooge, just a guy that likes caffeine and free wifi. Just check their web page for the offer. You register a Starbucks card after setting up an account with Starbucks. They give you a matching AT&T login to use everyday for one 2-hour session per day. Works from any laptop, iPhone or Touch.
 
Apple may have dropped the ball a little lately, but it is beyond pathetic how many times AT&T has screwed with us on this.
 
MacFly123 said:
Apple may have dropped the ball a little lately, but it is beyond pathetic how many times AT&T has screwed with us on this.
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Apple definately has slipped up a bit lately. Ill probably get shot or cussed for this but it almost has me wondering if they are focusing more on these phones than our macs.

Ex. Friend has a broken mac but cant be seen bc of all of this iphone hysteria. Have they built an uncontrolable monster?
 
So, from all this, I conclude that the free AT&T Wi-Fi for iPhone users is not available, right?

Alex
 
My iPhone connects to a WiFi network called 'attwifi' in Starbucks. When I launch Safari, I get the following screens below...is there a login for us iPhone users?
 

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