{"id":152,"date":"2010-01-15T20:13:09","date_gmt":"2010-01-16T01:13:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/saoudrana.com\/2010\/01\/mcdonalds-starts-dishing-out-free-wifi-at-most-of-its-u-s-restaurants\/"},"modified":"2010-01-15T20:13:09","modified_gmt":"2010-01-16T01:13:09","slug":"mcdonalds-starts-dishing-out-free-wifi-at-most-of-its-u-s-restaurants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/saoudrana.com\/blog\/2010\/01\/mcdonalds-starts-dishing-out-free-wifi-at-most-of-its-u-s-restaurants\/","title":{"rendered":"McDonald&#8217;s starts dishing out free WiFi at most of its U.S. restaurants"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/saoudrana.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/mcdonalds-wifi-01-15-2010.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-151\" title=\"mcdonalds-wifi-01-15-2010\" src=\"http:\/\/saoudrana.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/mcdonalds-wifi-01-15-2010.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/saoudrana.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/mcdonalds-wifi-01-15-2010.jpg 600w, https:\/\/saoudrana.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/mcdonalds-wifi-01-15-2010-300x156.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">McDonald&#8217;s promised that it would be make its in-restaurant WiFi service available for free in &#8220;mid-January&#8221; and, right on cue, it&#8217;s now kicked things open to everyone with a laptop and a fast food craving starting today, January 15th. That service previously cost customers $2.95 for two hours of use, and it&#8217;s already available at 11,500 of the company&#8217;s 14,000 locations. Incidentally, that also makes McDonald&#8217;s one of the largest providers of WiFi hotspots (free or otherwise) in the United States, with the company itself claiming that no less than 16% of reported WiFi hotspots in the U.S. are located at McDonald&#8217;s.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.blogsmithmedia.com\/www.engadget.com\/media\/post_label_source.gif\" alt=\"source\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/idUSN1117043120100112?type=marketsNews\">: Reuters<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>McDonald&#8217;s promised that it would be make its in-restaurant WiFi service available for free in &#8220;mid-January&#8221; and, right on cue, it&#8217;s now kicked things open to everyone with a laptop and a fast food craving starting today, January 15th. That service previously cost customers $2.95 for two hours of use, and it&#8217;s already available at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[155,156,157,158,159,160,161,162,629],"class_list":["post-152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wireless","tag-free","tag-free-wifi","tag-freewifi","tag-hotspot","tag-mcdonalds","tag-wifi","tag-wifi-hotspot","tag-wifihotspot","tag-wireless"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/saoudrana.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/saoudrana.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/saoudrana.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saoudrana.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saoudrana.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=152"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/saoudrana.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/saoudrana.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saoudrana.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saoudrana.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}