Bad news for iPhone users that enjoy hanging out at the local Starbucks. It seems that the free WiFi for the iPhone courtesy of AT&T, has been disabled. No explanation was given, just working one minute, not working the next. additionally, there was no mention when, or whether, the WiFi offering would be back. Wow, that was some short lived high speed love from AT&T.

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While the above screen, minus the ‘no circle’, greeted iPhone subscribers in Starbucks locations just two days ago, it is gone now. When signing in now, users must enter a password. As of now, no one has came forward with the password. As such, we must assume

only AT&T knows it. I wish I could say the service will be back soon, but unfortunately, only AT&T knows that as well.

The service could have been disabled so AT&T could figure out a better way to secure it. All it took to access it was an AT&T iPhone number, and an iPhone user agent string. A user agent is easy to fake, and I am certain most humans have a buddy with an iPhone on AT&T. Realizing that, AT&T could have taken away access for now. All we can do it cross our fingers that that is all temporary.

[Via Gear Diary]

Original post by Chase Higgins