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AT&T hotspots bring free WiFi for iPhone owners

arstechnica.com — Thanks to AT&T's takeover of T-Mobile's Hotspot business, iPhone users are getting the special treatment again from Starbucks in the form of free, unlimited WiFi.

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  • boymotion, on 05/01/2008, -0/+1I'll argue that. Like the article says, Starbucks employs baristas, not networking engineers. Most of the other coffee shops I've hung out in that offer free WiFi suck. The WiFi is slow, down half the time, and the only support option is one of the employees digging out the router from underneath bags of coffee and power cycling it.

    I may also be in a different situation as well. I work at home, which means when I go to a coffee shop, I'm basically working away from the home for a little while. I need my WiFi to _work_, period. No clumbsy, clueless college students behind the counter, and no POS routers buried under mountains of coffee beans.

    That said, T-Mobile has been charging way, way too much for its hotspot plans, and I welcome AT&T's much more reasonable service and pricing. I'll pay for a real company to run my WiFi—with all the real customer service and support that comes with it—any day.
  • chicagobiker, on 05/01/2008, -0/+1Wow, I can finally use WiFi at Starbucks!

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