AT&T has launched a “pilot deployment” in New York City’s Times Square, the nation’s symbolic public crossroads. Wi-Fi hotspots have proliferated in the city, but most of them are for use by customers already paying for other services. The FCC has suggested that Wi-fi and femtocells be utilized to ease the spectrum crunch. The service is free to customers with certain smartphones, laptops, and AT-T Internet plans. If Verizon eventually markets an iPhone, as is rumored, the development would take at least some of the spectrum pressure off AT &T.”]
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