o2 UK iPhone users and free wifi from The Cloud…

By on October 17, 2007 in News

Just got this in from SMS Text News reader, Dan:

Well, I don’t think I’ve seen it mentioned anywhere else but I logged on to a cloud hotspot with my [unlocked] iPhone yesterday and it showed an O2 branded splash screen that required me to enter an O2 phone number and, presumably, receive an SMS with a verification code to avoid unlocked iPhones getting the free wifi without an O2 contract.

Theoretically speaking, Dan, you could get an o2 pay-as-you-go sim card and do that? Then you’d get free wifi for your unlocked iPhone? I wonder if the system actually verifies if you *bought* an iPhone, or if you’re just an o2 customer?

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  • http://invalid.name Dan Lane

    …you could, in theory, temporarily change your iPhone’s MAC address to that of a device which gets free wifi at The Cloud hotspots but doesn’t require any special authentication.

    Open up a terminal window and type: ifconfig en0 inet lladdr 00:00:00:00:00:00

    This may, of course, be legally questionable :)

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