I haven’t verified this myself but Mac Rumors reports a number of iPhone owners getting free WiFi service at their local Starbucks and other AT&T hotspot areas. Apparently, your AT&T phone number is the key as that’s what you enter for authentication. If true, I would expect that this would preclude the iPod Touch since there’s no phone number attached. I also see that someone has spoofed the iPhone User Agent on a notebook to use the free wireless service. That didn’t take long. ;)This all must have just happened because I was in my local Starbucks on Monday morning and while I did get an AT&T hotspot logon page, I didn’t get the “special one” for iPhone owners. I might need to make a Starbucks run later today to verify. After Dad’s FiOS install of course… we wouldn’t want any technical questions to go unanswered during the install, now would we?Update: jkOTR reader, Jamie just confirmed the service via Twitter. Thanks Jamie!
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