AT&T expanding free Wi-Fi offer
Posted by Dennis Sellers 
Jan 24, 2008 at 10:27am
AT&T will make its 10,000 Wi-Fi hotspots free to nearly all of its broadband Internet customers starting early next week, reports the Associated Press. it makes iPhone more attractive in the US.
Is it a result of what has happened in UK and Germany with their hotspots being offered for free? Or is it a result of how the iPhone users of Google has made them sit up and notice?
Only subscribers to AT&T’s premium broadband services previously had free access to its hotspots, leaving out the majority of high-speed users, who have the 1.5-Mbps service. Now, more than 10 million broadband customers, most of AT&T’s high-speed Internet subscribers, will be able to use the hotspots free of charge, notes the AP.
Most Wi-Fi hotspots in restaurants, airports and other public places charge daily or monthly fees for access. AT&T wireless customers who use Apple Inc.’s iPhone currently must get a Wi-Fi package to use their iPhone at AT&T hotspots, but they now can use their iPhones at hotspots for free if they’re AT&T broadband Internet subscribers.
What’s more, AT&T also said it will introduce a faster broadband service that can send data at up to 10 Mbps. The service, at US$55 per month, will be available only to customers of its Internet Protocol-based television service, U-verse.
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