Cometa unwires New York area McDonald's; AT&T sneaks their announcement out first: In this installment of "inside baseball," we note that Cometa announces that it will unwire 75 McDonald's stores in the New York Metro area; 60 are already done and launch tomorrow. The story was originally embargoed by Cometa until Wednesday, but AT&T claims the glory for putting their logo on the front. The New York area service will be $2.99 per day, but free through August.
Wayport is running the SF Bay McDonald's, and is charging $4.95 for two hours, but also allowing free access to Wayport's existing monthly subscribers and customers of its resellers, such as iPass.
Note that AT&T proper, not AT&T Wireless took credit for sticking their name on the login screen. (The backend is all run by Cometa.) AT&T Wireless is operating Denver's airport and offering Wayport-resold service as GoPort. AT&T, the parent company, has its name on Newark's airport, with service negotiated by Concourse and installed by NetNearU.