New York, July 09: McDonald's Corp. plans to announce a big rollout of wireless Internet service in about 75 restaurants in the San Francisco Bay Area on Tuesday, The Wall Street Journal reported. McDonald's, the world's biggest restaurant chain, said in March that it would team up with Intel Corp. to market wireless Web connectivity in some of its restaurants. It started the push with 10 sites in Manhattan.
Several restaurants and retailers, including Borders Group and Starbucks Corp. have started to make wireless "hotspots" available at their locations. The hotspots, which use Wi-Fi, or wireless fidelity, let people surf the Web and check e-mail when they're within a few hundred feet of a transmitter.

McDonald's has already installed wireless Internet service in most of the restaurants at issue in San Francisco, San Jose and other locations in the area, The Journal said, citing unnamed sources.
Intel is testing the McDonald's hotspots to make sure they work smoothly with laptop computers that use Intel's wireless chips, the report said. Bureau Report