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BT Openzone Gets Guests Online At Macdonald Hotels & Resorts
(M2 PressWIRE Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) Visitors to Macdonald Hotels & Resorts across the UK will be able to use high-speed wireless internet access (Wi-Fi) through BT Openzone. Wi-Fi access will be available in public areas and over 4,500 bedrooms within all Macdonald Hotels' properties by the end of 2009.
Today's announcement gives 4.8 million BT broadband customers including those with inclusive BT FON Wi-Fi minutes, plus BT Openzone users to email, surf the internet or make VoIP calls at the hotels. O2 iPhone users have access included within their contracts, and millions of customers from iPass, Boingo and other BT Openzone roaming partners can also use the service.
Macdonald Hotels will also sell BT Openzone vouchers. Users can choose from a wide range of vouchers and subscriptions, whether an overnight or spa guest, golfer or a lunchtime diner.
The Group's properties include world-famous names such as Oxford's Macdonald Randolph Hotel & Spa (the scene of many a drama from ITV's Morse), the Macdonald Bear Hotel at Woodstock, the Macdonald Compleat Angler at Marlow and the Macdonald Aviemore Highland Resort.
Ruaridh Macdonald, Sales & Marketing Director, Macdonald Hotels & Resorts commented: "Many of our clients, particularly corporate clients, are BT Openzone account holders so we are delighted to provide access to a reliable Wi-Fi service that they are used to and where logging on will be familiar and convenient."
Chris Bruce, general manager, BT Openzone, said: "Many people expect to have access to Wi-Fi at quality venues like Macdonald Hotels & Resorts, whether through laptop, phone or other device. We are delighted to welcome their guests to the network."
BT customers can get online at more than 650,000 UK & Ireland hotspots including Thistle and Guoman, Hilton, Ramada Jarvis, Forestdale and Menzies hotels, airport lounges, Caffe Nero and Starbucks coffee shops and marinas, plus residential and independent commercial sites and more than 65,000 worldwide sites through international roaming partners.
About BT
BT is one of the world's leading providers of communications solutions and services operating in 170 countries. Its principal activities include the provision of networked IT services globally; local, national and international telecommunications services to our customers for use at home, at work and on the move; broadband and internet products and services and converged fixed/mobile products and services. BT consists principally of four lines of business: BT Global Services, Openreach, BT Retail and BT Wholesale.
In the year ended 31 March 2009, BT Group's revenue was GBP21,390 million.
British Telecommunications plc (BT) is a wholly-owned subsidiary of BT Group plc and encompasses virtually all businesses and assets of the BT Group. BT Group plc is listed on stock exchanges in London and New York.
About Macdonald Hotels & Resorts
Macdonald Hotels & Resorts Limited operates more than 40 hotels across the UK and ten resorts throughout the UK and Spain. The company employs over 4,400 staff and operates in excess of 4,500 bedrooms. First established in 1990 by Donald Macdonald and colleagues, the company was floated in 1996 on the main London Stock Exchange. In 2003, it returned to private ownership and was one of Scotland's biggest public to private deals at a cost of GBP620m.
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