AT&T Provides Free Wi-Fi Access to iPhone Users

AT&T HotspotAT&T hotspots are now offering free Wi-Fi access to iPhone users. Barnes and Noble, Starbucks and presumably AT&T’s 71,000 other Wi-fi hotspot locations 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.

AT&T’s system is based on the iPhone’s User Agent, which can easily be faked on laptops. Someone successfully accessed the free iPhone Wifi through his laptop (and a valid iPhone phone number)…

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AT&T offering free wifi to iPhone users - part 2
AT&T suspends free iPhone wifi
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2 Responses to “AT&T Provides Free Wi-Fi Access to iPhone Users”

  1. AT&T suspends free iPhone wifi Says:
    May 4th, 2008 at 6:48 pm

    […] few days ago I posted about AT&T offering free wifi to iPhone owners at all its hotspots, including Starbucks and Barnes & Noble locations. Well, I guess they are […]

  2. AT&T offering free wifi to iPhone users - part 2 Says:
    May 8th, 2008 at 9:41 am

    […] was first revealed last week that AT&T had quietly begun offering iPhone users access to their Wi-Fi hotspots for free […]

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