AT&T Wi-Fi Hotzones iPhones, Smartphones & Connected-Laptops in Times Square

If you are headed to Times Square to ring in the New Year and plan on Twittering, emailing New Year greetings or mapping your way home, you don't have to worry about incurring extra data charges on your AT&T iPhone, smartphone or laptop, because you can use the Wi-Fi hotzone in Times Square.  AT&T has expanded its Wi-Fi Hotzone in Times Square so that it now covers the north central part of Times Square along 7th Avenue, east along 46th Street, and along Broadway.

AT&T also plans to launch its next Wi-Fi hotzones near Rockefeller Center and St. Patrick's Cathedral and in San Francisco's popular Embarcadero Center.

Earlier this year, AT&T deployed Wi-Fi hotzones in New York City's Times Square, downtown Charlotte, N.C., and Chicago's Wrigleyville as part of its pilot project to explore using Wi-Fi to supplement mobile broadband in urban areas with consistently high mobile broadband use.  In just a few months during the pilot, AT&T customers made more than 350,000 connections at the three hotzones.

Hotzones enhance the broadband experience for AT&T customers who use Wi-Fi enabled devices.  Wi-Fi hotzones provide another fast and reliable way for customers to stay connected from their mobile devices, adding data network capacity in high-traffic areas.  AT&T customers with qualifying wireless data, LaptopConnect, and AT&T High Speed Internet plans get unlimited access to AT&T hotzones at no additional cost.

The popularity of Wi-Fi continues to grow as more and more consumers adopt Wi-Fi enabled devices and experience the convenience and speed of a Wi-Fi connection.  In the third quarter of 2010, AT&T handled 106.9 million Wi-Fi connections on its network, exceeding the total 85.5 million connections made during the entire year in 2009.