i couldnt' agree with you more. Once again it seems that us in the U.S. get the short end of the stick when it comes to mobile service. I travel to the EU often and have many friends there who are totally AMAZED that we here in the US have such an archaic mobile cell phone system. AT&T c'mom you are getting $ hand over foot from the all the new iphone activations etc......would it really hurt you much to....heaven forbid offer your national wi-fi service for free to your iPhone subscribers? I for one have had to get another cell phone (and contract with ATT b/c my Sprint contract doesnt end until April of '08) but yet i still did it. Please don't dissappoint us.

They do - $1.99 per month. I have it.

Where? Huh? How? Who?

It's $1.99 for people already signed up for AT&T broadband at home. Otherwise, it's $19.99 per month.

The AT&T WiFi is available free to broadband custumers who have the faster extreme plans not an additional addon you just use your email and password for your broadband account.

the fact that at&t wireless and at&t wi-fi are two different segments of at&t seems to suggests at&t lacks creativity and foresight in extending it's available products to its customers in a cohesive package.

however, in all fairness, i doubt that at&t has dumb people managing it. otherwise it would have been in the dumps a long time ago. so i have no doubt that at&t is looking into herding its similar products and services into a cohesive package.

i'm looking forward to at&t packaging its wi-fi service for it's iphone customers. of course preferably without increasing monthly fees because the current fee structure is already relatively steep.

so if at&t so happen to be reading this, do consider this for the suggestion box.

Thankfully unlocking the iPhone is easy. I use my iPhone on t-mobile with their $20 a month internet plan which includes hotspot access. I can use that hotspot access on my macbook too.

$1.99 a month is, as the article says, only if you are already using ATT/Yahoo as your ISP. "dennyg" didn't read the whole aticle.

Nevertheless, if ATT would make their hotspots available as a $1.99 addon, I have 4 iPhones I would enroll in a heartbeat.

The $1.99 rate applies only to one tier of AT&T DSL subscriber. Higher-tier DSL subscribers get it for free. AT&T WiFi is a network of over 8,000 locations that they essentially repurchase and resell from Wayport, a hotspot operator. It's mostly McDonald's, with a few hundred other spots.

The AT&T division that handles Wi-Fi is different than its wireless division, and sources have told me that there's no integration across them. So even though AT&T's wireless group could conceivably have had bragging rights and sold you their Wi-Fi network for $2 or $5 or $7.50 per month, they didn't. Because the company is too big to understand its own assets.

If you don't live in AT&T's DSL territory or aren't a DSL subscriber of theirs, they charge $20 per month for access to their resold McDonald's plus network. For that money, a Boingo Wireless subscription is better - $22 per month for tens of thousands of US hotspots, unlimited use, no commitment beyond each month, and the inclusion of most U.S. airports.

I think O2 have had to use The Cloud because by 9 November O2 will still only have 30% EDGE coverage. iPhone buyers in 70% of the UK will be left with GPRS - which is ridiculous.

Well, they might have Wi-Fi at home, and maybe even at work if they're lucky, but that's all - and those are the last places you need to have _mobile_ phone and Internet access.. There isn't that much other free Wi-Fi around.

I've just checked The Cloud's coverage in the part of the UK I'm from. It's mainly pubs, with the nearest one several miles away. If you know any Brits intending to buy an iPhone, then you can expect lots of drunken e-mails in future!

even if att did add its wifi hotspots, i'd still keep paying tmobile for its hotspots since the att hotspots are mostly in mcdonalds and ups stores where i never go. Tmo hotspots are in starbucks and airports -- places i actually go.

Torchwood is located in Cardiff, in Wales, way way west of London England, in which Canary Wharf is located. Also, the show's acting gets more schizo as season 1 progresses.

I do love to correct my correctors, even if it does cause the collateral damage of revealing me to be a big geek.

"Torchwood Tower" is what Canary Wharf is named in the Doctor Who episodes "Doomsday" and "Army of Ghosts." It gets blowed up real good by Daleks and Cybermen, which is why Torchwood Three in Cardiff is the focus of the "Torchwood" TV Series.

And yes, I've seen the entire first season of "Torchwood." A real mixed bag. I thought the later-season episodes were better, but it really never did catch fire.

What is this Boingo $22 thing? Where do I find out about this in the USA? Can an AT&T user get it? Is it worth having both?