Starting mid-January 2010, McDonalds will be offering free wireless Internet access at 11,000 of its 14,000 fast-food joints, reports Download Squad.
Whether it will be ‘gated’ via some kind of time code on your receipt, or really free remains to be seen.
This opens a scarily interesting kettle of filet-o-fish: is this service going to be firewalled? Will usage be monitored? If the service is totally free — as in, you can just walk in and boot up your netbook — will McDonalds become the new Starbucks?
Photo by McDonalds.