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dansor on 06/01/2009 - 16:55 freewifi.com.au (2074 clicks)
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McDonald's Australia have decided to offer Free Wireless Internet (WiFi) at the majority of their stores Australia Wide. The rollout is taking place from October2008 to March 2009. The planned shedule is:

  • All McDonald's Company Owned Restaurants (NSW/VIC/QLD/SA/WA) = 209 stores completed by December 5th 2008
  • McDonald's Franchisee Restaurants (NSW/ACT) = further 162 stores completed by January 14th 2009
  • McDonald's Franchisee Restaurants (VIC/TAS) = further 146 stores completed by February 9th 2009
  • McDonald's Franchisee Restaurants (QLD/NT) = further 119 stores completed by March 2nd 2009
  • McDonald's Franchisee Restaurants (SA/WA) = further 73 stores completed by March 13th 2009
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  • neil on 06/01/2009 - 17:21
    +6

    Hmmm…next house will have to be next to McDonald's.

    • pw2002au on 06/01/2009 - 17:55

      Could you imagine the smell? Bet that travels further than their internet connetion :-)

      • TeaEarlGreyHot on 06/01/2009 - 20:13

        Isn't is Jungry Hacks that points its "kitchen" exhaust fans onto the footpath in front of the "restaurant"???
        [ :- { )

  • user27 on 06/01/2009 - 18:11
    +3

    Big move by McDonalds!

    There are some terms and conditions or FAQs which you might find useful to know here http://mye65.blogspot.com/2008/11/mcdonalds-free-wifi-what-y…

  • G5 on 06/01/2009 - 18:26

    This is good news. Now we will be catching up to the UK, where all McDonald's stores offer free wifi, and a lot of Burger Kings do too.

  • ljiljana on 06/01/2009 - 18:30

    Free Wi-Fi is good but I can't say the same about their food

    • scotty on 06/01/2009 - 20:34
      +2

      I thought the whole point is that you'll be too busy checking out the latest deals on OzBargain via their free Wi-Fi, that you cannot remember how bad the food was…

  • aggregate on 06/01/2009 - 18:41
    +1

    50 mb Limit, but still VERY GOOD value considering it is free and maccas is everywhere.

    Don't be too critical on their food. The Cafe range is quite good and their deli choices aren't that bad either. Just stay away from the traditionals like big Mac + large coke.

    • [Deactivated] on 06/01/2009 - 18:49
      +2

      Keep in mind that once your 50mb is up all you have to do is accept the terms and conditions again and you get another fiddy megs…and so on and so on.

      Also the wifi works from most of their carpark spots (or at least the closer ones, sometimes it helps to open the car door or window :)

      • TeaEarlGreyHot on 06/01/2009 - 20:15

        Ah,,, metalised window tinting film strikes again!
        [ :- { )

  • [Deactivated] on 06/01/2009 - 18:48

    About 2 months late on the news, but worthy of spreading anyway.

  • AussieBattler on 06/01/2009 - 18:54

    Hmmm interesting, so they won't care if people decide to go into macca's with laptops just to sit their all day long and pretty much not buy any food just to use the free wifi? I wonder if they thought about that yet? :P
    and then don't forget all macca's carparks will now become internet drive in's!
    hahaha

  • Diodorus Siculus on 06/01/2009 - 19:58

    In UK I used to wander in, purchase a coffee (which, by the way, was pretty good quality) and boot up my EEE901. It requires that you enter an email address but it doesn't have to be genuine and then you get 24 hours free wi-fi. In some of the quieter places, students especially would stay all morning or afternoon.

    Cheers, Dio

  • TeaEarlGreyHot on 06/01/2009 - 20:18

    I thought this was already in place at DacMonalds for some time?
    Perhaps it only applied to very selected stores, or I'd confused reports of o'seas (UK?) infrastructure…
    [ :- { )

    • SirCH on 07/01/2009 - 00:13

      They've had WiFi at Maccas for ages - but WiFi used to cost. It was Telstra WiFi and you had to pay Telstra's rates for it.

  • shaggy84 on 06/01/2009 - 21:42

    About time to this countrys so far behind europe its unbeliveable mc donalds in the uk have been giving this for over 2 years

    • WaywardOne on 06/01/2009 - 21:58

      You do realise that the UK is a completely different country to Australia, right? I'd guess that the cost of Internet access and laws in Australia are two of the main reasons that wifi is not more freely available. There aren't many open WAPs nationwide; there are for Optus customers etc; but not open wifi AFAIK.

  • bobsi18 on 06/01/2009 - 22:12
    +1

    That's fantastic news, will make travel in Aus so much easier!

    • [Deactivated] on 06/01/2009 - 22:58
      +2

      The most annoying part about this is they don't have free wifi in their airport stores or even their stores near the airport (The Mascot store has no wifi, pay or otherwise and that's outside of the airport, but still on airport property I guess..I was planning on killing time the other day while waiting to pick someone up from Sydney Airport, and no darn wifi!)

      • bobsi18 on 09/01/2009 - 09:37

        Yeh, I know - although some of the airports have free wifi in certain areas, but paid in others. I think at Melbourne it's free in international, but paid in domestic? Sydney domestic is paid i think, can't remember about international.

  • LittleMiss on 06/01/2009 - 22:43

    This was at my local probably at least 2 years ago! Cool.

    • [Deactivated] on 06/01/2009 - 22:59

      Yes, but you used to have to pay for it, now it's free.

      • LittleMiss on 06/01/2009 - 23:54

        Really? I never tried it myself but I was told it was free….

  • mr_asstight on 06/01/2009 - 22:44
    +4

    Australian broadband is woeful

    • [Deactivated] on 06/01/2009 - 23:03
      +1

      At least it's slowly getting better here, unlike the US where it seems to be getting worse. Comcast 250GB data limits, the poor yanks :P

      • cheng2008 on 07/01/2009 - 01:51
        +1

        ha, we've got a long way to go what with telstra charging $60 for 10gb :(

  • azndragon168 on 07/01/2009 - 13:00
    -7

    lol a place i've seen students stay for hours is at Sunnybank (QLD) maccas…cheap asians!!! haha

  • scotty on 07/01/2009 - 17:50
    +3

    Argh! Can't believe a Macca's freebie is going to win the bargain comp this week…

    • LittleMiss on 07/01/2009 - 21:10
      +3

      And it's old news :P No offense

      • jashjash on 09/01/2009 - 16:59

        You should have posted it earlier then :P

      • skazclaw on 01/04/2017 - 13:58

        Yeah, pretty old indeed.

    • Bowchkawowow on 11/01/2009 - 20:10

      lol the Microsoft Windows 7 beta almost won it was only 30 votes away

  • Noslee on 07/01/2009 - 18:40

    This give Maccas all the reason to jack up their prices for their considerably cheap meals (compared to KFC and Oporto, etc). hmm have to hunt for a netbook now :P

  • carterdog1234 on 07/01/2009 - 21:32

    it's about time mcdonalds do this. Nearly all the ones in the us hav free wifi so it's good that they have brought it to australia!

    • [Deactivated] on 07/01/2009 - 22:34

      And I understand why they haven't done it earlier. I mean who else is giving away free WiFi on a scale even 1/10th this big? Or free WiFi at all in this country?

      • Diodorus Siculus on 08/01/2009 - 13:36

        Good point; how available is free wi-fi in Australia? In Europe it's pretty much everywhere - esp UK where outlets do what they can to grab a customer these days. Coupled with the 99p pint of beer, free wi-fi and excellent coffee, I could spend days in Wetherspoons! Just a shame I'm not over there anymore.

        Anyway, back to my query: is free wi-fi easily accessible nowadays and how can I find where it will be?

        Cheers, Dio

  • ozgamer on 08/01/2009 - 11:35
    -3

    Cheap-arse country.

    • [Deactivated] on 09/01/2009 - 04:01
      +2

      And what are you doing to make broadband more affordable in this country? Exactly!

      Need I remind you Australia is one massive bloody big island, with a few very very very expensive cables connecting us to the rest of the world for data. We're not like 'everyone else'.

      I hope you keep your WiFi open for the good of the nation.

      • TeaEarlGreyHot on 09/01/2009 - 18:19
        +1

        When the Yanks landed in Australia in WWII they couldn't believe that the "God-damned government" owned the "telephone company"… They though that made us "a bunch Commies".
        If the government HADN'T built and owned the telephone network (via the PostMaster-General), no-one other that a few Doctors in Melbourne and Sydney could have AFFORDED to have a telephone! Economies of scale were simply never going to apply in this vast, sparsely populated continent.

  • chloden on 13/01/2009 - 14:05
    +1

    Just got back from 3 nights in Sydney. The kids took their ipod touch's with them and we went to maccas and used the free WiFi. It was very handy to know about before we left. :)

  • Rosey_Burger on 13/01/2009 - 20:09

    OMG!!!! NO WAY!!!!
    thanks bro, this is sikk

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