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McDonalds To Offer Free Wi-Fi
Starting in January...
by Karl Bode Wednesday 16-Dec-2009 tags: business · wireless
According to the Wall Street Journal, McDonald's will be offering free Wi-Fi service to everyone -- starting in January. The fine dining establishment has traditionally charged customers $2.95 for two hours of Internet access at 11,000 of its 14,000 U.S. locations. McDonald's wants to lift the fee in the hopes that patrons will "hang around during down times between meals," soaking up the ambiance created by bright plastic and yelling children overdosed on corn syrup and carbohydrates. McDonald's also apparently wants to leech a few coffee drinkers from Starbucks, which charges $3.99 for two-hours of Internet access. The Wi-Fi at McDonald's is powered by AT&T, who already offer free Wi-Fi to their broadband and wireless customers.

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b10010011
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join:2004-09-07
Bellingham, WA

Linksys already offers free wifi nationwide

I can pick them up everywhere I go...

burgerwars

join:2004-09-11
Northridge, CA

Yippee!

Hurray!

drslash
Goya Asma
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Marion, IA

Starbucks

If you use a Starbucks card once a month you can get 2 free hours of wi fi free per day. Starbucks is also AT&T with free access to AT&T customers.

Now I can have business meetings in the Micky D's ball pit!

Z80A
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I can see it now (NSFW)

Definitely NSFW

»www.youtube.com/watch?v=yiPbxvHp6ng
patcat88

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Re: I can see it now (NSFW)

Sigh, I miss the 1990s internet.

A flamewar over a keyboard is alot better than a flamewar over a cellphone voice call.

»www.youtube.com/watch?v=jNv60bBTw3E

Telco_Tech

join:2009-05-18
Toledo, OH

Re: I can see it now (NSFW)

Wow, what a greasy scumbag. Let me guess - Revol, Cricket, or MetroPCS, right?

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Z80A
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Re: I can see it now (NSFW)

Where you at?
LMAO ROFL!!!

libertyfolk

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Mcdonalds wifi

The question remains will Mcdonalds allow us to use their power outlets to charge the battery. I have had the plug pulled at some restaurants.

stang 000000

@verizon.net

Re: Mcdonalds wifi

said by libertyfolk :

The question remains will Mcdonalds allow us to use their power outlets to charge the battery. I have had the plug pulled at some restaurants.
They never bother me for useing there power outlets but most of the mc donalds near me done have power outlets in the lobby. I have been yelled it for unscrewing there light bulbs in the lamps over the tables and screwing in a outlet into there lights

insomniac84

join:2002-01-03
Schererville, IN

Re: Mcdonalds wifi

said by stang 000000 :

I have been yelled at for unscrewing there light bulbs in the lamps over the tables and screwing in a outlet into there lights
Nice.
averagedude

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socket1

socket2
Thanks for the idea - seriously!
I would have never thought to add these to my list of accessories.

The white one is a candelabra to standard socket.
The brown one is standard socket to outlet.

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Re: Mcdonalds wifi

put a grounding rod and sledge hammer in your trunk too.

james

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CWCville USA
said by stang 000000 :

I have been yelled it for unscrewing there light bulbs in the lamps over the tables and screwing in a outlet into there lights
I'd just start playing with the dimmer
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libertyfolk

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I also have considered the bulb idea. since there is always more light fixtures than available outlets.
This old waitress chic at a IHOP said I could not use her outlets because of the possible liability due to surge damage or something.

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Wonder if I could use the plug in the john while parked on the throne (hey, I ate there @ got my token!)? I'd add an extension card to my inventory!
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Madtown
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Madera, CA

AT&T DSL customers

If you have AT&T DSL or U-verse you can use the WiFi at Mcdonalds for free, I've been doing that for over a year already.

elios

join:2005-11-15
Springfield, MO

Its already free

my roommate works at McD and you get 2 hours free now when you buy food unless this is free free

insomniac84

join:2002-01-03
Schererville, IN

Re: Its already free

It is completely free. Which some locations have already done. I have seen completely free wifi at locations at truck stops and college campuses. i.e. areas that already have easy to access free wifi.

MadMANN
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Re: Its already free

Both of the McDonalds in my area have been free since they were rebuilt/remodeled 4 years ago. I live in the styx too. I never thought there would be anything around me ahead of the rest of the country.

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Well...how bad is "free?"

I don't really see myself surfin' under 'da Golden Arches anytime soon, but, hey, it's free, how bad can that be?

What is amusing but sad, we'll see some folks find something evil or bogus about this anyways...
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JonRup

join:2008-07-20
Hilliard, OH

I thought McDonalds already had free wifi?

I go there on lunch break a lot and the wifi has been there for years, and I use it all the time. Either after I buy food or if I'm just in the parking lot.

yuduyl
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Re: I thought McDonalds already had free wifi?

some do have free wifi other charge for the service.

hayabusa3303
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eh

I hope there internet is FASTER than the food SERVICE.
Madtown
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Madera, CA

Re: eh

said by hayabusa3303:

I hope there internet is FASTER than the food SERVICE.
Unless you think speed lower than 1.5mbps is faster, it's not any faster than what I get at home.

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said by hayabusa3303:

I hope there internet is FASTER than the food SERVICE.
You have no idea of slow.. I live in a podunk town in Arkansas where the McD's is actually staffed by that all white crew you see in some commercials. It's pathetic how slow a group of white, mostly overweight, hillbillies can make a friggin 1$ cheeseburger to go. I always suspect they are eating one as they make one.

(Yea, I know, most of their commercials have 'diversity' now)

BTW.. there should by their
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dib22

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i have never seen it get over 300kb... of course that's using at&t's access... i find i get much faster connections on at&ts 3g network at most mcdonalds (1500k on average) which is the opposite of what at&t wants happening

imlovinit

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count me in

i like coffee and surfing

Dread
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Obesity

Now you can continue to kill yourself with bad food while surfing the web.

hdtvtechno22

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Chicago, IL

Re: Obesity

said by Dread:

Now you can continue to kill yourself with bad food while surfing the web.
LMAO
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drew
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I do that at home just as easily.

tvtek
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Yay

I guess they will call it McWiFi .....
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hootabius

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Interesting

Fun fact: Did you know that most of McDonald's Golden Arch signs are registered as "towers" available for lease to cell phone carriers?
djhexer

join:2002-10-07
Reno, NV

Re: Interesting

said by hootabius:

Fun fact: Did you know that most of McDonald's Golden Arch signs are registered as "towers" available for lease to cell phone carriers?
Maybe AT&T should lease some of them arches

some may make great cell towers...I have seem some from at least 2 miles away on a freeway

SLD
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San Francisco, CA

McDonalds?!?

What is McDonalds?!?

sawman
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BC KS

Re: McDonalds?!?

The old guy with the farm.

No Kidding

@cox.net
In central Georgia, it is a horse supply store.
mcbigham
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Huntsville, AL

Free wifi

"There's nothing quite like a McDonald's"

Quake110
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Ottawa, ON

HOOORARAAY...

Now I can use my laptop with greasy kids running around!!!

Steve Mehs
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Is this even a selling point?

Isn't one of the points of fast food is to have a relatively cheap meal and get it quickly and be in and out? I can't see the point of being your laptop or netbook in a place where most people are in and out in 15 minutes or less. But then again yuppies sit in Starbucks for hours sipping their overpriced fancy coffees playing on their computers. I don't have anything against this idea, but at the same time I really don't see a point to it either.
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hootabius

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Re: Is this even a selling point?

I've seen a lot of travelling business people and sales people stopping at McDonalds to grab lunch, and quite often if they are either on their laptop or on the phone. I dont regularly travel for work but I have sat at fast food places reading email on my lunchbreak before. A lot of folks don't get a chance to sit down to eat outside of their car, mainly because they don't have a chance to stop working. This allows them to do both, and I think now that it's freely available to all customers a lot more people will start doing it.
Oedipus

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The big question:

Is it unlimited?

DrDrew

join:2009-01-28
Apple Valley, CA
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McDonalds beat Congress to the punch of Nationwide Wireless

New National Broadband Plan... by McDonalds. Who said the FCC and Congress had to get involved...

WTF, 14,000 locations? and mine isn't one of the 11,000 with wireless.

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