{"id":185467,"date":"2010-01-15T19:52:01","date_gmt":"2010-01-16T00:52:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stoth.com\/2010\/01\/15\/mcdonalds-starts-dishing-out-free-wifi-at-most-of-its-u-s-restaurants\/"},"modified":"2010-01-15T19:52:01","modified_gmt":"2010-01-16T00:52:01","slug":"mcdonald%e2%80%99s-starts-dishing-out-free-wifi-at-most-of-its-u-s-restaurants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/185467","title":{"rendered":"McDonald\u2019s starts dishing out free WiFi at most of its U.S. restaurants"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/idUSN1117043120100112?type=marketsNews\"><img decoding=\"async\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" border=\"1\" src=\"http:\/\/www.blogcdn.com\/www.engadget.com\/media\/2010\/01\/mcdonalds-wifi-01-15-2010.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div>McDonald&#8217;s promised that it would be make its <a href=\"http:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2009\/12\/16\/mcdonalds-wifi-will-be-free-like-obesity-in-january\/\">in-restaurant WiFi service<\/a> 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.<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2010\/01\/15\/mcdonalds-starts-dishing-out-free-wifi-at-most-of-its-u-s-rest\/\">McDonald&#8217;s starts dishing out free WiFi at most of its U.S. restaurants<\/a> originally appeared on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.engadget.com\">Engadget<\/a> on Fri, 15 Jan 2010 19:06:00 EST.  Please see our <a href=\"http:\/\/www.weblogsinc.com\/feed-terms\/\">terms for use of feeds<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h6><\/h6>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2010\/01\/15\/mcdonalds-starts-dishing-out-free-wifi-at-most-of-its-u-s-rest\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permanent link to this entry\">Permalink<\/a>&nbsp; &nbsp;|&nbsp; <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"img_label\" src=\"http:\/\/www.blogsmithmedia.com\/www.engadget.com\/media\/post_label_source.gif\" alt=\"source\" \/><span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/idUSN1117043120100112?type=marketsNews\">Reuters<\/a><!--\/\/--><\/span> &nbsp;|&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.engadget.com\/forward\/19319086\/\" title=\"Send this entry to a friend via email\">Email this<\/a>&nbsp;|&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2010\/01\/15\/mcdonalds-starts-dishing-out-free-wifi-at-most-of-its-u-s-rest\/#comments\" title=\"View reader comments on this entry\">Comments<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Buy This Item: <a class=\"buy\" href=\"http:\/\/www.stoth.com\/buy.php\" ><span style=\"color: #33bc03\">[Click here to buy this item]<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2010\/01\/15\/mcdonalds-starts-dishing-out-free-wifi-at-most-of-its-u-s-rest\/\" >Article<\/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":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-185467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185467","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=185467"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185467\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}