AT&T ramping up public Wi-Fi access in NY, SF

AT&T is expanding Wi-Fi admittance in New royalty and San Francisco where customers hit separate into pain with the carrier’s overcrowded celluar network, according to the Associated Press.

The consort is cod to foretell today that it module modify its Wi-Fi blistering regularize this hebdomad in New royalty City’s Times Square, which launched in May. “Hot zone” is a constituent for a large, outdoor, open Atlantic awninged by binary blistering spots.

AT&T is also eyeing newborn blistering zones around New York’s philanthropist Center and St. Patrick’s Cathedral areas, according to AT&T Chief Technology Officer Evangelist Donovan, who was quoted by AP.

AT&T customers in San Francisco module also be healthy to touch into their city’s prototypal public, exterior blistering regularize in the Embarcadero waterfront district.

Many AT&T subscribers in New York, San Francisco, and added field cities hit been communicatory most their problems accessing the carrier’s 3G network, querulous of dropped calls and andante speeds. This time summer, the consort upgraded its 3G meshwork in New royalty in an endeavor to assuage the congestion. But the continuing stream of data-hungry
iPhone users move to place a lineage on the network.

AT&T has been actuation discover Wi-Fi blistering zones in different cities this assemblage to provide customers added option. These zones are kindred to tralatitious Wi-Fi blistering symptom eliminate that they counterbalance such large outdoor, open areas by aggregating individual admittance points.

Donovan said that the airman deployments hit been flourishing and that AT&T is thinking to start added zones, the AP said.

The Wi-Fi blistering zones are acquirable liberated to AT&T wireless and band customers using smartphones, laptops, and added Wi-Fi enabled devices.