O2 is set to deliver Wifi hotspots to 1,600 pubs and restaurants around the UK in a 3 year contract to provide free wireless to 13 brands belonging to Mitchells & Butlers.

The O2 Wifi will be accessible and free regardless of the guests’ mobile and broadband providers. The hotspots will be rolled out initially to 199 Harvester restaurants, with complete coverage of all Mitchells & Butlers brands by October.

Robin Young, Operations Director at Mitchells & Butlers, said: "Our three-year technology journey is reaching that exciting stage where, following the deployment of a new flexible cloud-based infrastructure with our partner Fujitsu, we can start to deploy some really guest-focused services.”