{"id":577818,"date":"2010-05-25T10:28:39","date_gmt":"2010-05-25T14:28:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gigaom.wordpress.com\/?p=122121"},"modified":"2010-05-25T10:28:39","modified_gmt":"2010-05-25T14:28:39","slug":"iphone-owners-att-building-a-wi-fi-hotzone-in-times-square-for-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/577818","title":{"rendered":"iPhone Owners: AT&T Building a Wi-Fi Hotzone in Times Square for You"},"content":{"rendered":"

“First they ignore you. Then they laugh at you. Then they fight you. Then you win.” Mahatma Gandhi. <\/em><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>I included that quote because I was bemused by AT&T’s announcement<\/a> that it’s building a giant Wi-Fi hotspot<\/a> in Times Square as a way to offload traffic from its pokey and overcrowded 3G network.<\/p>\n

Times Square may not be the only massive, public hotspot effort by Ma Bell — if the pilot works then AT&T plans to roll out in three other locations. I bet those places will be in New York and San Francisco, where AT&T performs like a 300-pound man running up a 60-degree incline. In 2008 AT&T bought Wayport for $275 million<\/a> and with it 21,000 hotspots in places such as the Starbucks coffee chain, but the carrier never effectively used that network to boost its Wi-Fi capabilities.<\/p>\n

AT&T, for as long as I can remember, was what I would call a Wi-Fi hater: using its immense lobbying powers to kill municipal Wi-Fi and other such efforts. Its executives often joked about Wi-Fi not being a carrier-class technology. Good to see them learning from those they mocked.<\/p>\n

But they should also be reaching out to cable companies, which have Wi-Fi initiatives of their own and lease capacity on their Wi-Fi networks<\/a> in order to accommodate their 3G customers. Cablevision in Long Island, N.Y. would be a good place to start.<\/p>\n

Related GigaOM Pro Content <\/strong>(sub req’d): How AT&T Will Deal With iPad Data Traffic<\/a><\/p>\n

Image courtesy<\/a> Flickr user Adventures in Librarianship<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

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