Trouble Connecting to a Hotspot

This question has elements specific to the UK.
I have an iPhone 4 16GB on Vodafone pay monthly. So I get 1GB Wi-Fi. I'm also on BT total Broadband so I get unlimited Openzone through them.
From my desk in my office I am in range of a BT Openzone hotspot. I cannot log into it. I can login using my Vodafone or BT id to an Openzone hotspot down the road, one of the Phonebox ones. I can also use Starbucks and the BT FON at home (although clearly I use the main W-Fi as it is faster).
Other people using iPhone 3GS and one person on an iPhone 4 32GB can log in to the Openzone hotspot at my desk. I have not been able to test with another 16GB iPhone 4.
When I log in it shows me connected to Openzone in settings but the icon at the top of the phone remains on 3G. When I look at the openzone connection it shows an IP address in the range 169.x.x.x while everyone else's connection shows a 10.x.x.x range IP address. I get a 10.x.x.x range address when I connect, for example, at Starbucks.
Clearly using free Wfi-Fi all day at work is faster and cheaper than using mobile data.
Why does only my iPhone not work with only this hotspot?
I have reset network settings, forget this network and powered down the phone in various orders.
thanks
Jonathan

Update
I have now managed to try the same test with another 16GB iPhone 4 (also on Vodafone) and that has the same problem. So it is either narrowed down to the the 16GB model of the iPhone with this hotspot or iPhones on Vodafone with this hotspot.
Could this be a hardware/router compatability issue if this public hotspot uses a different router/ router configuration? This is a major annoyance as it would give me free fast access all day at work rather than slower expensive mobile data.

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