Telecommunications services company Nashua Mobile has teamed up with Internet technologies group Wireless G to offer uncapped WiFi for under R40 per month.
The product offers G-Connect uncapped WiFi access for R39 a month, with a fair-usage policy where users will be throttled once a monthly 3GB threshold has been reached. The service is currently available to all Nashua Mobile subscribers as a value-added service, billed to their monthly account.
There are more than 1 800 integrated local G-Connect WiFi hotspots, including in-flight WiFi on all domestic flights with Mango.
Nashua Mobile says qualifying subscribers (all customers with their accounts "in good standing") can use the service by activating it online.
Nashua Mobile CEO Mark Taylor says the service can be used on the ground or in the air, on certain Mango flights. "Whether on the ground or on a Mango flight, surfing the Net has become simpler, plus our subscribers pay a flat fee and all from a single account."
Taylor says SA will soon catch up with the rest of the world, where WiFi has become the predominant access technology for mobile devices.
The G-Connect In-Flight WiFi that allows roaming on hotspots on the ground brings a new dimension to "WiFi on the go". He says the telecoms service provider has picked up that people "now seem to consider WiFi a wireless technology more aligned with mobile connectivity".
Wireless G CEO Carel van der Merwe says Nashua Mobile - with a base of over 900 000 subscribers and a national presence - is an ideal partner for Wireless G.
In addition to Mango's entire fleet, G-Connect's 1 800 integrated hotspots can be found at airports, shopping centres, health clubs, coffee shops and hotels in SA.
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