AT&T has promised to give iPhone owners free mobile wireless Internet. Users can access WiFi hotspots at 17,000 locations, including Starbucks and McDonalds. RIM BlackBerry mobile devices will also get free Wi-Fi later this year.

AT&T has recently acquired Wi-Fi provider Wayport, adding thousands of hotspots to their network. AT&T seems to be bumping up the amount of hotspots that they now have to offer with the opening of free Wi-Fi access to iPhone users. The purchase price for Wayport was $275 million.

AT&T is all over the connectivity map and is seemingly doing all they can to get customers connected to the web. First up they have purchased Wayport's 3,000 hotspots to make their hotspot collection even bigger than before and bringing their US hotspot count to 20,000. This move on the heels of locking up Starbucks hotspots make AT&T one of the top players in the WiFi hotspot business in the US. This goes well with AT&T's recent announcements giving free hotspot access to iPhon

AT&T is finally giving iPhone owners free Wi-Fi access at its hotspots, including Starbucks locations and airports. Taking advantage of the wireless Internet access isn't hard to do -- you just need to follow a few steps to get online and surf.

This article has been published at RLSLOG.net - visit our site for full content. We have known about AT&T’s plan to provide free Wi-Fi access to iPhone users for some time, but news that it actually would become available was usually squashed by retractions. This time, however, it appears that AT&T is serious. The carrier is sending text messages to iPhone subscribers, pointing them to a web page that explains the free access to any of its 17,000 hotspots across the nation. The AT&T