Wi-Fi Hotspot News

Summer's here but everyone seems to have gone away on holiday. Certainly we're down 50% on staff, you can drive across London without sitting in traffic. I was even an hour early for a meeting just outside of the M25 last Tuesday.

So, we've established that there are no Londoners in London (are there ever) and this weekend there will be even less.

Who's driven the usage of our Wireless Hotspots through the roof? Not only did we install more Wireless Hotspots last month than in the previous quarter combined, but our average daily online usage is up almost 100% this month over last year. That has to be a good sign doesn't it? Our Hotels are jammed full and the cafes we look after don't seem to be doing to badly either.

An article in the Metro this week suggested that online sales are up 16% despite everything else growing at a snail's pace. Are all the tourists here this summer enjoying the favourable Euro or do we have a significant number of desperate graduates looking for jobs and making the most out of our Free and Paid WiFi Hotspots.

Ok, so we certainly have more Wifi hotspots this year, but we're up on average daily use. We have more Free Wi-Fi Hotspots but these are still our minority locations. Pre-paid Wi-Fi usage is up too - looks like our prices are right after all!!

Enjoy the summer sun this weekend. If you're in London, it's unlikely that you'll see us at the carnival, but certainly our offices will be mobbed (not inside thankfully).

If you've been to our offices recently, you will have seen our factory churning out Wi-Fi with a vengeance. The picture you see above is only an artist's illustration, but the PolkaSpots coming out of the chimney are in fact real.

We have a very talented man called David to thank for his massive efforts in creating a sketch that identifies our business so well. Thanks David! If you want to reach David, you can email averytalentedman@polkaspots.com

In 2005, Simon Morley started PolkaSpots Limited. Now in it's fourth year, PolkaSpots Supafly Wi-Fi has changed a lot, grown in size, gained a number of good looking people and moved to the moon.

PolkaSpots Supafly Wi-Fi  is now part of PolkaSpots Industries and has just acquired a little sister; PolkaSpots Web.

PolkaSpots Web provides a complete Online Business Solution. Never before has creating your Online Business been easier. Your website, lead generation, customer management, forums, blogs, ecommerce and newsletters. And, there's analytics and reporting so you can watch your business grow...

We've completely integrated our Supafly Wi-Fi service with PolkaSpots Web. Now your Wi-Fi hotspot is a part of your Online Business too. You can now access your own reports, re-brand your login pages and even add newsletter sign-up form to your front page.

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18 months ago, we decided that we were going to stop laminating our Supafly Wi-Fi Internet Vouchers. We print tens of thousands of these every year and it seemed very environmentally unfriendly to be covering each innocent piece of paper in plastic.

And there we stopped, making the plastic vouchers almost completely green! If you want to test out how degradable they are, get a cup of water, drop one in and watch it fall apart in front of you.

Perhaps don't do this too often as it'll work out to be an extremely wasteful and expensive habit. Also, make sure you store your Internet Vouchers in a dry and cool cupboard.