AT&T is the strategic partner of Apple iPhones in the United States, and is responsible for the iPhone activation as a service provider. AT&T has until now activated more than 2 million iPhones, and a survey indicates that a new customer of iPhones activates it within 3 days of its purchase.
The telecommunication firm Starbucks in a recent development has decided to change its long-time Wi-Fi hot spot network provider partner T-Mobile, and tap the services of AT&T. AT&T, which offers wireless services, on expansion could cater to a free network for users of the iPhone and possibly the iPod touch.
Presently, the service will be available to 100,000 Starbucks employees, 12 million U-Verse DSL subscribers, and even T-Mobile HotSpot subscribers at no extra cost. Although, there is no assurance from AT&T about the probabilities of Apple IPhone users getting a free access to Starbucks. However, AT&T officials are positive that they are considering bringing more value to their iPhone customers and thereby keeping all options open.
Starbucks has also worked out the tariff
There however, exists a vast opportunity for Starbucks and the rest of AT&T’s network to improve its services in iPhone and iPod touch by simplifying the login. A t present Apple iPhones need the login information to be entered through the built-in Safari browser. And to add to the problem, this information is never cached or stored.
Conversely, if Starbucks-AT&T can provide a better integrated network, then, iPhones or iPod Touch could be distinctively acknowledged and logged in with no added effort. Nonetheless, Starbucks has also assured that, one factor that complicated things in the past for a person carrying multiple Wi-Fi-enabled devices, like a MacBook and an iPhone;(experiencing network prohibition following simultaneous logins using the same account) is apparently non-existent here
