These days many consumers, restaurants and retail establishments have adopted the use of WiFi or Free WiFi hotspot services to their customers in the greater Toronto area. While offering free WiFi and mobile hotspot services to your customers is a must and a necessity in the mind of the consumer. A recent study & survey was conducted in the streets of Toronto to see how many consumers of the ages between 17yrs of age & 65 years of age would expect a retail or restaurant establishment to have free WiFi services. Age groups between 17rs and 45yrs reported a 90% yes or agreed that offering a Free hotspot service is a must for any type of hospitality environment. Group ages between 46 years and 65years of age reported a 70% yes it should be offered and a 30% no/doesn't matter response.
There are hardware providers such as Ruckus and Meraki that offers you built in software in their cloud based access point and controllers but they don't offer you the option to fully deploy the social WiFi media aspect. Ruckus and Cisco Meraki are great products but they work even better when you deploy a solution such as Aislelabs or purplewifi. Aislelabs a well known company in the Greater Toronto area works with a well known vendor www.connectsim.ca.
The second solution to start a social WiFi offering is to purchase the additional hardware from a technology vendor and not have to worry about additional costs of licenses and monthly fees. The only additional monthly fees you would need to maintain are the hosted monthly social WiFi fee which ranges between $25cad/month and up to $50cad/month depending on features you require. Based on our knowledge and from what the majority of restaurants and retail stores are following is that they are mostly selecting a managed service offering and not choosing the route of purchasing their own hardware. When trying to manage your own hardware a restaurant owner will have to worry about compatible hardware with the hotspot social WiFi application.
Connectsim's software solution enables a restaurant or retail company to utilize their social WiFi software that works with their compatible wireless hardware. Their solution offers the retail or restaurant owner to have a fully managed campaign that takes care of content filtering, bandwidth restrictions so users don't burn through your internet rates.
Depending on the package you select their managed offerings also include free SEO monthly keyword packages and a whole set of corporate branding packages. Their Mid level marketing package includes restaurant design menus displaying Free WiFi zone on each page, free retractable roll up banners, free design table covers, high end glossy coasters with a logo and displaying Twitter/Facebook/LinkedIn login, facebook website design and twitter design and they also manage your yearly facebook and twitter pages.
To summarize what you'll need to run a basic social WiFi campaign is the license from Connectsim that will cost roughly $25-$30/month but this doesn't include any assistance or setup just documentation from their website. This monthly fee is for one sensor or access point ,if you require more wireless coverage you will need a second license. Basic fees from many vendors will not include the advanced features of coupon management, splash screen management, content filtering or bandwidth filtering. Its best to contact a local managed WiFi social provider in your area. Connectsim ships through North America and all you'll have to do is send them a diagram with your retail or restaurant schematic and they'll ship you out a fully configure splash page Social WiFi product.
There are hardware providers such as Ruckus and Meraki that offers you built in software in their cloud based access point and controllers but they don't offer you the option to fully deploy the social WiFi media aspect. Ruckus and Cisco Meraki are great products but they work even better when you deploy a solution such as Aislelabs or purplewifi. Aislelabs a well known company in the Greater Toronto area works with a well known vendor www.connectsim.ca.
The second solution to start a social WiFi offering is to purchase the additional hardware from a technology vendor and not have to worry about additional costs of licenses and monthly fees. The only additional monthly fees you would need to maintain are the hosted monthly social WiFi fee which ranges between $25cad/month and up to $50cad/month depending on features you require. Based on our knowledge and from what the majority of restaurants and retail stores are following is that they are mostly selecting a managed service offering and not choosing the route of purchasing their own hardware. When trying to manage your own hardware a restaurant owner will have to worry about compatible hardware with the hotspot social WiFi application.
Connectsim's software solution enables a restaurant or retail company to utilize their social WiFi software that works with their compatible wireless hardware. Their solution offers the retail or restaurant owner to have a fully managed campaign that takes care of content filtering, bandwidth restrictions so users don't burn through your internet rates.
Depending on the package you select their managed offerings also include free SEO monthly keyword packages and a whole set of corporate branding packages. Their Mid level marketing package includes restaurant design menus displaying Free WiFi zone on each page, free retractable roll up banners, free design table covers, high end glossy coasters with a logo and displaying Twitter/Facebook/LinkedIn login, facebook website design and twitter design and they also manage your yearly facebook and twitter pages.
To summarize what you'll need to run a basic social WiFi campaign is the license from Connectsim that will cost roughly $25-$30/month but this doesn't include any assistance or setup just documentation from their website. This monthly fee is for one sensor or access point ,if you require more wireless coverage you will need a second license. Basic fees from many vendors will not include the advanced features of coupon management, splash screen management, content filtering or bandwidth filtering. Its best to contact a local managed WiFi social provider in your area. Connectsim ships through North America and all you'll have to do is send them a diagram with your retail or restaurant schematic and they'll ship you out a fully configure splash page Social WiFi product.
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