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AT&T’s bringing free wifi to the iPhone — once it finishes wigging out

May 12th, 2008 | Category: Cellphones, Wireless

Hey, do you guys want to invent out our AT&T impression? It’s pretty awesome. Okay, okay, here it goes: “Great news, we’re offering free WiFi to iPhone users! Wait, no we’re not. Yes we are! Oh, no, wait, cancel that.” Pretty spot-on, right? Sadly, it looks like we might need something else to rag on shortly, since an AT&T spokesman started clearing the air with the New York Times late final week. The bottom line — for the moment, besides — is that AT&T has “long planned” to offer up its WiFi hotspots as a free value-add for the iPhone

and all of the other WiFi-equipped devices in its arsenal, but that the brief enabling of the feature thus far and the mention on AT&T’s site were results of human error, and the company isn’t prepared at that point to commit to an actual launch period or details on how the service will work. Hey, at least we know we’re not just suffering from some brutal hallucinations now.

[Via TUAW]

Original post by Chris Ziegler