Auto AUTH at Starbucks now…
Business, Tech, Updates June 17th. 2009, 6:53pmWhile ATT has given iPhone users free access to Wifi at most Starbucks (and 4,000 other locations), it’s always been a slightly cumbersome process. With the new iPhone OS 3.0, that is no longer the case.
Carry your iPhone w/ OS 3.0 into an ATT Wifi hotspot and it will automatically authenticate, not requiring the iPhone user to take any action to connect to the Wifi hotspot. This is very nice, and serves both the customer and ATT…
Since it’s almost unavoidable to use the hotspot when in range, ATT is effectively offloading some percentage of their data traffic from the 3G network to the local broadband provider. Yay!
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