AT&T Gives iPhone Users Free WiFi Access!

The day iPhone users have been waiting for ever since we learned Starbucks dumped T-Mobile for AT&T has come: (legit, AT&T subscribed) iPhone users now have free access to all of AT&T's WiFi hotspots.

This includes Starbucks and Barnes & Noble locations, as well as 71,000 other locations including airports across the nation.

In order to access the free Internet goodness, you merely connect to an AT&T hotspot using your iPhone's WiFi, and you will be presented with the screen seen in the picture (photo by Ars Technica), where you merely enter your phone number to verify your iPhone account, and voilá! Free WiFi!

Those of you with more nefarious minds can also rejoice: the free gateway works by identifying the iPhone's User Agent tag, which means that if you spoof the User Agent data (say, by using Safari's hidden debug menu) then you can get access to the same screen using your laptop. Then you merely need the phone number of a real iPhone user to enter, and you'll also gain free WiFi access.

Happy surfing!

AT&T Providing Free Wi-Fi Access to iPhone Users [Updated] [MacRumors]