RedButton's Cutting Edge Network - Fully Upgraded

We're proud to announce that the upgrade of each and every router in our network has now been completed. Each router in our network now sports the production release of version 0.9.12 of our hotspot firmware bringing a multitude of improvements in service levels to our customers.

We completed the beta testing phase of version 0.9.12 of the RedButton Hotspot Firmware, mentioned in an earlier post, a few weeks a go and subsequently started the roll-out of the production release.

A primary benefit to our customers has been that RedButton is now able to pro-actively attend to network health issues, rather than an inadequate reactive approach. That's valid even for repeaters deployed at hotspots to increase signal coverage. So if there is an issue at any one of the more than 200 routers in our network we know which one is affected, where it is located and when it last reported in. With this our network has truly reached the cutting edge.

Prepaid WiFi Rate Announcement

We have some good news for our end-users, we are in the process of standardising our RedButton Prepaid WiFi hotspot rates into three rate classes - promotion, standard and premium.

Regardless of the rate class at any particular hotspot users also enjoy the following benefits:

• Free 12 month carry-over on credit purchased
• No monthly contract required
• Only pay for the megabytes needed
  
• Convenient prepaid payment by credit card or voucher
• Convenient wireless Internet
• Use standard, inexpensive WiFi equipment
  

RedButton Prepaid WiFi rate classes, as of July 2008 onwards, are:

1. Promotion rate: 12c/MB bulk to 15c/MB default
2. Standard rate: 24c/MB bulk to 30c/MB default
3. Premium rate: 48c/MB bulk to 60c/MB default

The default rates are displayed on the portal pages and users benefit from bulk rates with discounted credit purchases.

Please note that even the premium rate is significantly lower than those offered by our major WiFi competitors, the best prepaid wifi rate you'll get from from one in particular is 72c/MB and your credit expires after 30 days to boot.

Please note that there are exceptions to these rates at selected hotspots:

• legacy locations with existing agreements with stakeholders
  
• locations that use the Free WiFi product - highly variable since the venue owner can change the rate at will