Business meetings, lunchtime chats or catching up on the mountain of emails in your inbox. All of us need to be connected to the internet and because some of us don’t have broadband at home, we venture out to our nearest coffee shops to take advantage of its WiFi hotspots whilst enjoying a snack or drink.
Even though a number of restaurants, coffee shops and other hospitality establishments have free WiFi hotspots, there are still a considerable number of owners that have not entered the age of technology and offer only broadband internet. Setting up a WiFi hotspot in your establishment will lead more patrons to your door as not all people have internet at home and many need a social place to conduct meetings. In the past, owners have shied away from the implementation of WiFi hotspots in fear of overspending. Red Button, in collaboration with Web Africa, a top Internet Service Provider, have come up with a way in which even the smallest café on the corner in South Africa can now enjoy the benefit of their WiFi hotspots.
Red Button, a WiFi hotspot service provider, believes that one should be able to control one’s bandwidth and billing when offering customers free internet via WiFi hotspots. By using Web Africa’s bandwidth in addition to the Application Programming Interface software programme, Red Button will be able to let owners control bandwidth allocation and billing, making it easier for them to manage their WiFi hotspot locations and budget. For Red Button, Web Africa is the support system to their services and they believe that having control over WiFi hotspots bandwidth and billing will appeal to large and small establishments.
What makes this collaboration so unique is the fact that the API places the service head and shoulders above the rest. One of the ways in which the API will benefit is that the set up time of a WiFi hotspot will take considerably less time. This will benefit an industry where time is money. Flexibility is key and we know that establishment owners prefer to have full control over their expenditure. The Web Africa API offers features like optimised billing, account maintenance and reporting.
We all expect fast, efficient and reliable internet access in a restaurant or coffee shop as the establishment is providing a service and we are purchasing from them whilst we surf the net on their WiFi hotspots. As more hospitality establishments realise that it is possible to control their bandwidth and keep a tight rein on their costs, more of your favourite spots will display that sticker on the door that states they now provide WiFi hotspots for your enjoyment.