Starting from today you can simply goto a McDonald with your WiFi enabled hand-held and browse as much as you need. Yes from today they will not be charging you the $2.95 which was the charge for two hours.
This goes for 11,500 of its 14,000 U.S. locations.
Via- LifeHacker
A major Wiltshire town is to become the first in the UK to offer free public wireless internet access to its entire population, it was claimed.
The plan is to to have blanket “Wi-Fi mesh” coverage for all 186,000 citizens by April 2010.
BBC news reported,
If successful, there is an intention of working on similar roll-outs of the technology in other towns and cities across the UK.
Swindon Borough Council leader Rod Bluh said: “This is a truly ground-breaking partnership which will have real benefits for everyone living in Swindon.
“We’re doing it, we’ve done it, and we’re the first to do it.”
The service will also have the potential to provide free internet phone-calls and remote medical consultations.
According to a study conducted by Mobilesquared by 2011 the number of users of mobile internet will overtake the numbers of users who stick to the fixed line internet. The study was entitled “Taking the internet Mobile”.
Theinquirer reported about this,
There are predicted to be 42.5 million fixed line users in the UK by 2011, but the number of 3G devices alone will reach 36.3 million. Factor into this six million dongles and embedded devices and there’ll be roughly 200,000 more mobile Internet users than fixed line.
“Mobile will become the primary access point for brands and businesses communicating with its consumers within two years,” said Nick Lane, chief analyst at Mobilesquared and report author in a statement.
He also blames the lack of information available and costly price plans for the low numbers of people using their mobile Internet.
“The number of mobile internet users would expand even faster if mobile data pricing reflected existing models, such as variable pricing to appeal to the different demographics,” added Lane
