McDonald’s Diners Gorge On Free Bytes

The Guardian:

McDonald’s has 750,000 UK customers logging on to the internet in its restaurants after introducing free high-speed wireless connections, according to figures from the company. The customers are downloading more emails than they’re eating hamburgers, according to new figures from the company.

Since introducing free Wi-Fi connections (after registration) in its 1,200 UK restaurants in 2007 it says customers are downloading 500 gigabytes (GB) of data a day, equivalent to 6m emails – 10 times more customers than when the scheme was introduced, and double the number of a year ago. Read more.