Free Wifi for AT&T customer

[myphone]

Is it really true that AT&T is installing 10,000 free wifi for its customers in US? WOW, that's going to be great. No more waiting for 3G. And,I heard 3D has a huge chipset and comsuming too much battery juice.

BTW, I heard it from morning news.


Rod

 

[avaloncourt]

http://www.news.com/8301-10784_3-9856701-7.html?tag=newsmap

Free Wi-Fi will be offered only to AT&T broadband subscribers who subscribe to services with 1.5Mbps downloads or higher. Subscribers who only have the company's wireless service will not be offered free Wi-Fi.

This means that users of the iPhone, which has Wi-Fi built in and is exclusively sold in the U.S. for AT&T's network, will only be able to take advantage of the free Wi-Fi offer if they happen to live in a part of the country where AT&T broadband is offered and if they subscribe to that service.

 

[Sweetbike40]

I wish it was to anyone with their service.
That would make me keep them as my carrier.

 

[nate94gt]

so if you're paying for something and must be subscribed.... where exactly does the free come in

 

[rdowns]

so if you're paying for something and must be subscribed.... where exactly does the free come in

They're paying for ATT broadband access at home and now will get Wifi access outside the home as part of that package. Seems to me a new service offered at no additional charge is free.

 

[nate94gt]

They're paying for ATT broadband access at home and now will get Wifi access outside the home as part of that package. Seems to me a new service offered at no additional charge is free.

who said its free... its padded into the bill.

 

[iSamurai]

3d? 3g

 

[hotsauce]

Wirelessly posted (Apple Communication Device: Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; U; CPU like Mac OS X; en) AppleWebKit/420.1 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/3.0 Mobile/4A93 Safari/419.3)

They're paying for ATT broadband access at home and now will get Wifi access outside the home as part of that package. Seems to me a new service offered at no additional charge is free.

who said its free... its padded into the bill.

We know there's no such thing as free lunch. But you get the point.

 

[Rojo]

Man - I wish their hotspots weren't mainly McDonalds. I haven't entered a McDonalds in 7 years.

If they had hotspots in places like Starbucks (damn T-Mobile!) then I would toally switch my broadband service to AT&T in a heartbeat. But right now they're not in enough places to get me to switch.

 

[myphone]

http://www.news.com/8301-10784_3-9856701-7.html?tag=newsmap

I was half awake when I heard the news. Thank you for your post/link.

It should be free for all iPhone user because of its slow Edge wireless.

For me, it's free because I'm a AT&T broadband subscriber

 

[myphone]

3d? 3g

Thank you for your correction.

English is not my first language.

 

[elmo151]

AT&T has more than 10,000 Wi-Fi hot spots in the U.S. in places like airports, McDonald's restaurants, Barnes & Noble bookstores, coffee shops, and sporting venues.

not places most adults frequent very often.



a great many places have free wifi. I was in a new york city court last week and free wifi was available. same at several local hospitals.

Free Wi-Fi will be offered only to AT&T broadband subscribers

I use att for the iphone but not broadband. not many people do!

 

[avaloncourt]

I was half awake when I heard the news. Thank you for your post/link.

It should be free for all iPhone user because of its slow Edge wireless.

For me, it's free because I'm a AT&T broadband subscriber

No problem. I just figured it was bad TV new reporting as usual.