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McDonalds Australia to rollout free wifi

October 22, 2008 – 3:10 pm, by Trevor Cook

This is good news not just for people who eat at McDonalds but presumably it will put pressure on a range of cafes, bars etc to also offer free wifi. I use a mobile broadband modem so it doesn’t matter to me, which is the other point. I wonder if this signals that the pay-for-use wireless hotspot idea (which is wildly expensive) is not faring so well.

Comments (4) | Permalink

4 Comments

  1. 1
    ltep
    Posted October 22, 2008 at 9:08 pm | Permalink

    Well it’s ‘free’ but you need to purchase a McDonalds product to sit in there and it’s really slow.

  2. 2
    Jon Hunt
    Posted October 23, 2008 at 9:22 am | Permalink

    Hmmm..not such a big deal as you may think. Internode offer free hotspots at airports, all cibo espresso, CityLan wireless network in Adelaide (https://hotspot.internode.on.net/coverage/). More useful in Adelaide, not sure about elsewhere. If you have an internode account you get (supposedly) full speed access. Please, no free advertising for McDonalds!!

  3. 3
    Trevor Cook
    Posted October 23, 2008 at 9:27 am | Permalink

    OK Jon no free advertising. I was unaware that there was so much free wifi out there cause I gave up awhile ago and got my mobile modem

  4. 4
    maccasfreewifi
    Posted October 27, 2008 at 10:41 pm | Permalink

    No advertising and no need to purchase anything to use the new McDonald’s Free WiFi – 20 sites live in NSW at the moment. Check out the details on our FAQ below:
    http://wirelesslans.net.au/wireless_shop/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=24&Itemid=30

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