McDonald's UK Now Offers Free Wi-Fi
October 7, 2007 1:47 PM | Interesting | Comments (0)
| In the UK McDonald's is the now the largest provider of free wireless broadband Internet access. The company announced yesterday that it's over 1,200 restaurants were now equipped to offer the free service. The service allows millions of diners who visit McDonald’s restaurants the ability to log on to the internet using wireless broadband, via their Wi-Fi enabled laptop, smartphone or PDA, as they grab a bite to eat. The majority of the Wi-Fi McDonald’s sites are drive thru restaurants which are popular with business travelers. The McDonald's free Wi-Fi service is the blow to the pay-as-you-go Wi-Fi services which usually charge around 5 pounds ($10.18) for an hour log-on. Britain's BT Group recently announced it has teamed up with Wi-Fi crusader FON to allow more than three million UK broadband customers to use hundreds of thousands of hotspots for free. |  |
Currently, there are about 11,477 Wi-Fi hotspots in the UK and major service providers include The Cloud, BT, and Deutsche Telecom's T-Mobile. McDonald's service will account for about 10% of the total Wi-Fi hotspots.
