AT&T: iPhone OS 3.0 prompts increase in Wi-Fi connections

“AT&T saw nearly 15 million users connect to its Wi-Fi network last quarter — a 41 percent increase over the previous quarter — thanks, in part, to the release of iPhone 3.0, which allowed auto-authentication on the wireless carrier’s 20,000 hotspots,” Sam Oliver reports for AppleInsider.

“For iPhone users alone, the number of Wi-Fi connections tripled in June following the new software release, an AT&T spokesperson told AppleInsider,” Oliver reports.

“In June, coinciding with the release of iPhone 3.0, free auto-authentication for iPhones on AT&T Wi-Fi hotspots was enabled… Since the start of 2009, the company’s Wi-Fi network authentication capacity has quadrupled, in anticipation of the influx of iPhone users. Since July of last year, the number of Wi-Fi hotspots has expanded from 17,000 to 20,000,” Oliver reports.

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[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “James W.” for the heads up.]