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Why location based services will make us happier shoppers
Location based happy shopping Who doesn’t like shopping? Well, for those who aren’t so keen, Location Based Services should help to make it a better experience. New WiFi based technologies allow shops to utilise geo-fencing, drawing invisible lines around our favourite sales areas or locations and allowing a store to…
5 WiFi buzz topics from WBA’s Global Congress
Our VP Americas, Anne Lakstigala, recently attended the World Broadband Alliance Wi-Fi Global Congress in San Francisco. Anne was on a panel, hosted by Adlane Fellah, and discussing ‘Innovative Services over WiFi’. Here we take a look at the 5 big talking points and share our views on those hot topics. 1) Monetizing WiFi Advertising…
Oakham Bus Station provides free WiFi for residents and tourists
Oakham, the county town of Rutland, has recently built a new bus station and decided on further rewarding its travellers with provision of free WiFi. The solution is provided by Nick Viney of Millennium Ltd, with funding from Rutland County Council. It was decided that the installation would utilise TP-LINK routers…
Hinckley town centre gets connected
Hinckley town centre has recently joined the growing number of towns who wish to give their residents access to free WiFi. The solution in Hinckley was provided by Rod Rayner of Intalect. The installation is a mixture of Mikrotik and Ubiquiti hardware using Purple WiFi as the guest WiFi with…
Parents give up children in exchange for free WiFi
It sounds pretty ideal. You get free WiFi whilst someone else watches your children for a few hours, brilliant! Is this in a play centre perhaps or a theme park maybe? Unfortunately not. A rather interesting study was carried out in London recently. F-Secure offered people use of free WiFi, except it…
Plus Dane Group installs Purple WiFi and Cisco / Cisco Meraki
Social housing provider, Plus Dane Group, has signed a three year contract with Purple WiFi to provide their WiFi solution across 31 venues in Merseyside and Cheshire. The WiFi solution will be available in all premises owned by Plus Dane and also in communal areas for tenants. The social WiFi overlays…
SIP opportunity for Cisco Partners and Purple WiFi
Purple WiFi is a Cisco Preferred Solution Partner, Cisco Compatible and has a joint solutions incentive promotion in place, which rewards partners for creating innovative business solutions by offering incremental discounts. Purple WiFi are also a Cisco CMX (Connected Mobile Experiences) Ecosystem partner and work with the tools available in CMX. WiFi…
Apple randomise MAC addresses with iOS 8 … or did they?
Some big news from Apple recently was the announcement that with iOS 8 they would be randomizing MAC addresses of devices when scanning for WiFi. We were all expecting this change as part of the iOS 8 release. HOWEVER Early testing by Purple WiFi and others has revealed that random…
Resolution IT turns Hotel Jerbourg Purple
The Hotel Jerbourg is a luxury Guernsey hotel set on the cliff top of Jerbourg Point. The outstanding location, breathtaking views and luxury accommodation have given Hotel Jerbourg an enviable reputation as one the most popular hotels in the Channel Islands. The hotel is less than 10 minutes’ drive from…
Case Study – Four restaurants and a bar
HM Network turns the San Marco Group Purple The San Marco Group is a well-respected chain of four Italian restaurants and a bar, which are located in Preston, Lancashire. Not only does the San Marco Group deliver first class food and drink, but they also clearly demonstrate superior service to…
Guest hotspot software, Purple WiFi, now available in Canada
Ingenious Media Inc. has signed an agreement with social WiFi provider, Purple WiFi, which will see the addition of cloud-based guest Social WiFi and location analytics solutions to its portfolio of products and services. Purple WiFi provides businesses with secure and legally compliant enterprise guest WiFi while delivering rich analytical information…
A Purple celebration for the launch of WiFi at Camden Stables Market
On September 4th, we officially launched Purple WiFi at Camden Market with a party for our partners, customers and guests. The event, held at the stunning Gilgamesh venue in Camden Stables Market, brought together the great and the good from the local community, our partners Cisco Meraki, as well as…
TFM Networks announces partnership with Purple WiFi
Data Network specialist TFM Networks has announced a reseller agreement with innovative social Wi-Fi provider, Purple WiFi. The agreement will see the introduction of Purple WiFi’s cloud-based guest WiFi and location analytics solutions into TFM’s growing portfolio of cloud based modular WiFi connectivity solutions. Commenting on the agreement, Gavin Wheeldon,…
Nisa customers repeatedly asked for WiFi – and we delivered
Introduction The installation of free guest WiFi at the Nisa store in central Cardiff has resulted in increased footfall and sales. Purple WiFi are the providers and our partner, ITSourced, configured, installed and managed the delivery of the solution at the stores. David Morris, Head of IT at Nisa Retail…
Stables Market Camden turns Purple with free WiFi for visitors
Purple allows Stables Market in Camden to offer an easy to use WiFi service with the added bonus of WiFi marketing opportunities and footfall monitoring August 19, 2014: Purple, the intelligent spaces company, today announced the launch of a secure and legal Social WiFi solution for Stables Market Camden, London’s…