January 18th, 2010 at 10:06
Posted by Marc
Filed under: Internet | Tags: AT&T, Free WiFi, McDonalds, WiFi
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McDonald’s have decided to serve fresh, free WiFi to most of their US branches. The decision comes after an announcement, in December, and now, you have the ability to feast and tell everyone on Facebook – oh! The power.
Even though there’s mostly free WiFi in most of the European and quite a lot of the other worldwide branches, the US has been rather slow to it – they’d previously charged $2.99 for just 2 hours of the access.
This comes from a deal with AT&T, who appear to be attempting to boost their reputation as a network. McDonald’s could even soon become an alternative to the stereotypical writer or blogger in a coffee shop. 11,500 of their 14,000 fast food restaurants in the US will receive free WiFi, while the other 2,500 are unlikely to receive the bounty – having previously not had WiFi.
It’s pretty ironic that a fast-food restaurant such as McDonald’s wants people to stay – I mean, isn’t the whole concept of fast food as ‘pack them in like sardines, get them out as fast as possible’? Who knows, it could be McDonald’s in an attempt to be somewhere more sociable.
