{"id":72970,"date":"2013-05-09T14:14:37","date_gmt":"2013-05-09T12:14:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=72970"},"modified":"2013-05-09T14:16:12","modified_gmt":"2013-05-09T12:16:12","slug":"free-wifi-internet-access-in-sa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wireless\/72970-free-wifi-internet-access-in-sa.html","title":{"rendered":"Free WiFi Internet access in SA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"AlwaysOn\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/378444-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:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/439619-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 &#8211; 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 WiFi articles<\/h3>\n<p><a title=\"The surprising truth about free WiFi services in SA\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wireless\/70850-the-surprising-truth-about-free-wifi-services-in-sa.html\"><strong>The surprising truth about free WiFi services in SA<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"The rise of 5GHz WiFi\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wireless\/69430-the-rise-of-5ghz-wifi.html\"><strong>The rise of 5GHz WiFi<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Free Wi-Fi with Internet Solutions uncapped ADSL\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wireless\/66536-free-wi-fi-with-internet-solutions-uncapped-adsl.html\"><strong>Free Wi-Fi with Internet Solutions uncapped ADSL<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wireless\/52523-alwayson-launches-alwaysonsmart.html\"><strong>AlwaysOn launches AlwaysOnSmart<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wireless\/27985-alwayson-wi-fi-plans-for-mobile-devices-coming.html\"><strong>AlwaysOn Wi-Fi plans for mobile devices coming<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Free WiFi Internet access in South Africa is growing at a steady rate, with close to 1,000 free hotspots in operation<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":73178,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[1779,18494,18492,35,8509,18486,12507,18490,18496,18498,18488,8507],"class_list":["post-72970","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wireless","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:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72970"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72970"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72970\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73028,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72970\/revisions\/73028"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73178"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}