McDonald's may have news on its choice of Wi-Fi hotspot infrastructure vendor, number of locations: This article spends a lot of time reviewing old news at some length, but it does have one bit of new information: McDonald's should shortly choose among Wayport, Cometa, and Toshiba, and define the extend of their hotspot deployment.
Sources have told me that Toshiba's efforts overall--not specific to its Chicagoland McDonald's deployment--have been lackluster and haphazard without a comprehensive plan behind it. Cometa recently lost AT&T as a reseller of their network, and AT&T Wireless does not list Cometa locations (even though it ostensibly resells them). Cometa just redesigned its Web site removing a logo bar that had been in place for month showing their reseller partners. Their new site contains no information about how to get access to Cometa networks, but it does have a hotspot locator.