McDonalds is to offer free wireless Internet access across its 1,200-strong fast food restaurants in the UK, making it the country's biggest provider of free wireless broadband access.

The fast food chain's move reflects increasing competition in the UK's broadband market, where a regular hotspot user usually has to pay around £5 for an hour of Wi-Fi access.

Britain's top fixed-line carrier BT Group said last week that it has teamed up with Wi-Fi crusader FON to allow more than three million UK broadband customers to use hundreds of thousands of Wi-Fi hotspots for free.

There are over 11,400 Wi-Fi hotspots in the UK and major service providers include The Cloud, BT, and Deutsche Telecom's T-Mobile.

McDonald's service will account for about 10% percent of the total Wi-Fi hotspots in the UK.

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