McDonald's WiFi will be free like obesity starting January

If you live in small-town America then you're already familiar with the hippest hangout around: McDonald's. Now everyone in the US, not just Zune owners, will be treated to free WiFi to go with their manufactured food purchases. Starting mid-January, some 11,000 Mickey Dee locations will partner with AT&T to scrub the $2.95 for 2-hours of WiFi fee according to David Grooms, CIO of McDonalds USA. The idea is to hook the nation's loitering youth into purchasing additional items in between Facebook updates chronicling late-night brawls with local rent-a-cops. Thank gawd there's a middle-aged man-clown out there who likes to babysit children.

[Wardriver83 Posted Dec 16th 2009 11:34PM]

I don't know about all locations across America, but I know that every McDonald's in my city offers free Wi-Fi through use of a coupon with a pre-printed code on it. Usually good for about two hours, but sometimes I've gotten more time while using them. The coupons say that the service is available at over 10,000 locations throughout the country, and I'm assuming the coupons themselves are largely available, as well.