Wireless paradise (and smart PR): Free Wi-Fi for AT&T iPhone users
AT&T is now offering free wi-fi for its iPhone customers. No, this isn’t like the other two times. It’s actually true this time.
Here’s the notice posted on AT&T’s Web site. There are over 17,000 hot spots around the country that can now be accessed by iPhone customers, free. This is a pretty big boost for the iPhone (at a time when it didn’t need it really). It’s been confirmed by several websites already as being accurate.
The free Wi-Fi will be available wherever AT&T offers a Wi-Fi hot spot, which includes several restaurant chains, airports, and (the many) Starbucks coffee shops.
iPhone subscribers should have received text messages on Wednesday alerting them to the new perk. But it appears that not everyone received the message. It seems (according to reports from CNET and several other sites) that some (as in, almost all) subscribers did not get the message. Difficult to believe that’s accidental, but….oops?
AT&T has already been offering free Wi-Fi to its broadband customers since the middle of last year. And in mid-January it announced it would offer its LapTop Connect subscribers, who use a 3G Aircard, free Wi-Fi access as well. Good things all the way around.
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