The move, aimed at attracting consumers away from rival food chains and coffee shops, such as Starbucks and Coffee Republic, could save regular public wireless Internet users £260 (US$530) a year, based on them paying to use other so-called WiFi services for an hour a week, McDonald's said.

McDonald's, which claims to own about 10% of the UK's WiFi hotspots, will work with wireless company Cloud Networks to roll out the free service across its retail estate by the end of the year.

Cloud recently struck a deal with mobile phone operator O2, a subsidiary of Telefonica, and Apple to provide WiFi connectivity for owners of Apple's iPhone in the UK, when the device goes on sale in the country next month.

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[9 Oct 2007 18:11]

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