{"id":577960,"date":"2010-05-25T10:30:31","date_gmt":"2010-05-25T14:30:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mobilecrunch.com\/?p=32144"},"modified":"2010-05-25T10:30:31","modified_gmt":"2010-05-25T14:30:31","slug":"att-offering-free-wi-fi-to-customers-in-times-square","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/577960","title":{"rendered":"AT&amp;T offering free wi-fi to customers in Times Square"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mobilecrunch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/gross-Times-Square.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"gross Times Square\" width=\"600\" height=\"365\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-32155\" \/><br \/>\nIf you can&#8217;t get a signal in Manhattan, blame AT&#038;T. They&#8217;ve pretty much admitted that their network in New York is completely inadequate, and now, three years in, they&#8217;re taking some concrete steps to alleviate the problem &mdash; for tourists, at least.<br \/>\n<span id=\"more-32144\"><\/span><br \/>\nThe biggest concentration of AT&#038;T users in New York probably is in Times Square; think of all those people on the shared voice\/data network, emailing pictures to their nieces, checking the map to make sure they&#8217;re in Times Square, and all that. AT&#038;T is going to give all these fanny-pack-wearing pretzel junkies (well, the ones with AT&#038;T phones) <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424052748704113504575265323937207404.html?mod=googlenews_wsj\">free wi-fi access<\/a> for their phones.<\/p>\n<p>They&#8217;re hoping that by offloading some high-traffic areas onto wi-fi, they might unload some of the burden that&#8217;s been breaking the backs of iPhone users for the last few years. I&#8217;m not sure that it&#8217;s really going to make a dent, but hey, it&#8217;s something. If it makes a difference, they&#8217;ll probably roll it out in other major metropolitan areas, so stay tuned.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~at\/xsi8WKJ8tIP3XsfTheg2x72gmg8\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~at\/xsi8WKJ8tIP3XsfTheg2x72gmg8\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~at\/xsi8WKJ8tIP3XsfTheg2x72gmg8\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~at\/xsi8WKJ8tIP3XsfTheg2x72gmg8\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/Mobilecrunch?a=VaP8Ltp98YE:J2GuWn1B6dE:V_sGLiPBpWU\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/Mobilecrunch?i=VaP8Ltp98YE:J2GuWn1B6dE:V_sGLiPBpWU\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/Mobilecrunch?a=VaP8Ltp98YE:J2GuWn1B6dE:F7zBnMyn0Lo\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/Mobilecrunch?i=VaP8Ltp98YE:J2GuWn1B6dE:F7zBnMyn0Lo\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/Mobilecrunch?a=VaP8Ltp98YE:J2GuWn1B6dE:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/Mobilecrunch?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you can&#8217;t get a signal in Manhattan, blame AT&#038;T. They&#8217;ve pretty much admitted that their network in New York is completely inadequate, and now, three years in, they&#8217;re taking some concrete steps to alleviate the problem &mdash; for tourists, at least. The biggest concentration of AT&#038;T users in New York probably is in Times [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":944,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-577960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/577960","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/944"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=577960"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/577960\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=577960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=577960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=577960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}