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AT&T has posted to its Web site details of free Wi-Fi access it is offering at hotspots around the country. Those hot spots include Starbucks coffee shops, airports, hotels, convention centers and bookstores.
Details about AT&T's plans to offer free Wi-Fi for iPhone users first appeared in May, but shortly after posting details of the plan, AT&T pulled them again. AT&T is the sole provider of data and voice plans for iPhone users in the United States.
AT&T says it has more than 17,000 Wi-Fi hot spots nationwide. The company counts 12 airports, 31 hotels, 23 universities, 18 convention centers, five sports centers, 8,000 or more restaurants, 700 or more bookstores and more than 50 supermarkets.
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makes sense!By Azazello on July 18, 2008, 4:09 pmcosts a lot less to use infrastructure already deployed than to up the ante about developing the 3G network so that it can support the exploding need for bandwidth...
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