Addendum to previous: Most McDonalds are franchised. McCorporate can't *tell* the franchises that they *have* to use CoMeta (or whomever). They could make "WiFi access with <parameters>" a "brand standard".
This is just like the rules for forcing the francises to buy McCorp's cups, or "hamburger" meat/wrappers. Or, point in fact, the rules that the hotel "Brands" (Hilton, Marriott, etc) must obey when they deal with the real 'owners' of hotel properties, typically REITs. Something close to 80% of McCorp's gross margin comes from franchised resturants, and those franchised resturants are about 80% of the US total. Can you say "uphill battle"? Jim -- general wireless list, a bawug thing <http://www.bawug.org/> [un]subscribe: http://lists.bawug.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless
