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US McDonald's Wi-Fi Going Free In January

Knowzy writes "After five years behind a paywall, McDonalds plans to stop charging for its Wi-Fi in mid-January in the US. According to the Dallas Morning News, you aren't even required to make a purchase — 'free is free,' a spokesman said. It's also been widely reported that they won't impose time limits on your surfing. With around 20,000 free hotspots between McDonald's and Starbucks (who went free[ish] earlier this year), anyone still charging for Wi-Fi is going to look foolish, if not downright greedy."

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  1. Re:understanding is critical here by TooMuchToDo · · Score: 4, Informative

    Panera wifi is free. I just used it the other day.

  2. Re:Burger King is still better by PitaBred · · Score: 5, Informative

    Yeah, but the fries are the best out there

  3. Re:Starbucks free? -- Da Rules by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Informative

    Free for up to 2 hours (per-day, may not be split across multiple login sessions) if you've registered one of their Starbucks stored-value cards and you've used it to make a purchase sometime within the last 30 days.

    So more "free with purchase"-style.

  4. Re:Burger King is still better by Zordak · · Score: 4, Informative

    That's what we call "mechanically separated meat." Leftover meaty sludge pressure washed off the bones after the real meat has been stripped away. That's what they called a "Chicken McNugget" when I was growing up, though they claim that now their McNuggets are made with actual meat.

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  5. Re:Burger King is still better by Hurricane78 · · Score: 4, Informative

    You call those sloppy pale mini-sticks “fries”?

    Here’s how real fries look like: http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&safe=off&client=firefox-a&rls=org.gentoo%3Aen-US%3Aofficial&um=1&sa=1&q=belgische+frieten&aq=f&oq=&aqi=&start=0 :)

    Belgian fries. In my opinion the best fries in the world. Especially if made with eastern-European potatoes (those that still taste like potatoes). If you ever get there, try them.

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