{"id":37509,"date":"2013-05-09T15:05:01","date_gmt":"2013-05-09T13:05:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=37509"},"modified":"2013-05-10T08:48:33","modified_gmt":"2013-05-10T06:48:33","slug":"alwayson-boosts-free-wifi-in-sa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/internet\/37509\/alwayson-boosts-free-wifi-in-sa\/","title":{"rendered":"AlwaysOn boosts free WiFi in SA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"AlwaysOn\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/8430-AlwaysOn\">AlwaysOn<\/a> already operates over 850 hotspots which offer free Internet access to consumers, and the company is growing its network by 40 hotspots per month. This is according to AlwaysOn CEO <a title=\"Nico Pretorius\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/8431-Nico-Pretorius\">Nico Pretorius<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Pretorius explains that they operate WiFi hotspots on behalf of venues which offer free Internet access to their clients as a value added service.<\/p>\n<p>Free WiFi access, Pretorius explains, attracts customers to venues like hotels or restaurants, generate loyalty and give businesses an edge over competitors.<\/p>\n<p>He added that free Internet access improve the customer\u2019s overall experience at a venue, and often results in extended stays and increased spend at a hotel or restaurant.<\/p>\n<p>There are currently many restaurants who offer free WiFi access through AlwaysOn, including Mugg &amp; Bean, McDonalds, Wimpy, Woolworths, Seattle Coffee Shops, Colcacchios and Fego.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to these many of the hotels such as CityLodge Hotels, Sun International, Tsogo Sun Hotels and Protea Hotels offer complimentary WiFi access.<\/p>\n<p>To ensure the network is not abused, restaurants have some Internet usage restrictions ranging from 30 minutes or 50MB to 2 hours or 200MB \u2013 whichever comes first.<\/p>\n<p>In the case of hotels there is usually a daily data limit which typically range between 100MB and 500MB per day.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on WiFi<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to Twist in Vodacom, WirelessG battle\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/telecommunications\/35209\/twist-in-vodacom-wirelessg-battle\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Twist in Vodacom, WirelessG battle<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to MTN, WirelessG in WiFi offloading deal\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/internet\/33803\/mtn-wirelessg-in-wifi-offloading-deal\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">MTN, WirelessG in WiFi offloading deal<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to Free WiFi for SA labour courts\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/internet\/31684\/free-wifi-for-sa-labour-courts\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Free WiFi for SA labour courts<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to Affordable uncapped ADSL with free in-flight Wi-Fi\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/internet\/11814\/affordable-uncapped-adsl-with-free-in-flight-wi-fi\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Affordable uncapped ADSL with free in-flight Wi-Fi<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AlwaysOn is growing its network by 40 hotspots per month, according to CEO, Nico Pretorius.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":17018,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9882],"tags":[5805,5806,5807,26,3886,5808,5809,5810,4987,5811,5812,949],"class_list":["post-37509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-internet","tag-alwayson","tag-citylodge-hotels","tag-colcacchios","tag-headline","tag-mcdonalds","tag-mugg-bean","tag-nico-pretorius","tag-seattle-coffee-shops","tag-sun-international","tag-tsogo-sun-hotels","tag-wimpy","tag-woolworths"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37509","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37509"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37509\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37511,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37509\/revisions\/37511"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}