Leading Cape Town based hotel group Daddy Long Legs has acquired Skyrove’s hassle free and fully supported Wi-Fi solution for its latest expansion, the Grand Daddy Hotel. Situated in Long Street, the Group’s venues comprise of The Art Hotel, Self Catering Apartments, The Grand Daddy and finally 7 vintage Airstreams on the roof of the Grand Daddy Hotel – each of these boasting its own contemporary, unconventional design.

Guests can now stay at any of the Daddy Long Legs hotels and enjoy Skyrove’s Wi-Fi Internet access. At the Grand Daddy all guests will receive a 20 Megabytes venue branded voucher upon checkin. Guests can buy additional vouchers or top up using their credit cards. Skyrove’s limited free hotspot option has already been widely adapted in the hospitality industry as it gives the venue full control over the free amount that they give away, is secure and protects the venue from abuse and is an opportunity to increase customer loyalty by handing guests a free branded voucher.

Sergio Dreyer, GM of Grand Daddy says: “It is a pleasure forming another partnership with South Africa’s leading Wi-Fi hotspot provider. We are thrilled to have found a partner for our group that has delivered such an outstanding level of service. The way Skyrove’s controlled free Internet solution works is the best possible solution for our new 4-star hotel.”

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Skyrove launched its new Authorised Partner Training Programme on 20 April 2009 held at the Grand Daddy Hotel. The event was attracted interested SMME’s from across the country to participate in Sales, Marketing and Technical training followed by much welcomed FAQ’s.

Skyrove’s new Mesh technology was also introduced by Skyrove founder and Chief Technical Officer, Henk Kleynhans. The mesh routers make it simple to set up larger, multi-building, wireless networks due to its self-forming and self-healing ability. Skyrove is currently the only company in Africa that provides this innovative technology to venue owners and its partners.

Renier De Jager from Leapfrog Computers in Gauteng says: “This is truly a step forward for providing cheap internet access all over Africa combined with the opportunity to make money from it. Excellent technology combined with great management Team = Success.”

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We brought back the Status Window (pictured below) in October last year, and the one major complaint we had was that it would pop up to the foreground whenever it refreshed if you use Internet Explorer! So rather than asking everybody to switch to an Open-Source browser such as Firefox or Opera, we decided to stop automatically refreshing the status window altogether. The status window also would take up some processing power and use a little bit of data every time it refreshed. The drawback is that in future you will have to click the ‘Refresh Stats’ button in order to see the latest usage statistics. Please let us know what you think and if there is any way in which we can improve it further! UPDATE: Due to your feedback, we’ve decided to make a small change. In future, the Status Window will refresh the moment you click on it!

Skyrove is happy to announce that we have reached 500 Wi-Fi Hotspots and 20 000 registered users in December. “Building relationships with organisations such as Spur, Digital Planet and RSAWEB – to name a few, has taken Skyrove from strength to strength making it Africa’s largest and fastest growing Wi-Fi sharing community. It is a very exciting time in our business as 2009 brings with it new and exciting opportunities,” says Tino Mueller, CEO of Skyrove. Skyrove enables anyone to easily start a Wi-Fi Hotspot and share their broadband internet connection to earn an income, while at the same time providing ubiquitous, inexpensive, prepaid wireless internet access to end-users. Once you plug your Skyrove router into your network (ADSL, iBurst etc), a Skyrove user with a Wi-Fi device will see a new network called ‘Skyrove Internet’. They simply connect to this, buy credits online and start to surf the net. Take advantage of online shopping, simply visit the Skyrove Shop To find Skyrove Hotspots in South Africa and worldwide visit map.skyrove.com For more information on Skyrove click here

RSAWEB, a leading provider of Internet Services to Corporates, SMMEs and home-user customers, has recently integrated their Wi-Fi hotspot offering with Skyrove. With branches in Cape Town and Johannesburg, RSAWEB offers customers free technical and marketing support (including a marketing pack to help you promote the Skyrove Wi-Fi service), plus first line customer support, without any subscription fees! Each Wi-Fi router retails for R795 and venue owners are paid 50% revenue share at the end of the month. RSAWEB’s Wi-Fi Hotspot instantly turns your location into a Skyrove enabled Wi-Fi Internet Zone that can effortlessly generate passive income for yourself or your business. This means that RSAWEB’s hotspot users have access to over 500 Skyrove Wi-Fi hotspots in South Africa. For more information on RSAWEB and its Wi-Fi offer please click here To find Skyrove Hotspots close to you and worldwide visit: map.skyrove.com

Since its inception over 40 years ago, Spur Steak Ranches have become famous for offering great tasting food for the whole family. The Group has a local presence of over 237 restaurants and has expanded internationally with a combined total of 28 restaurants into the UK, Australia and Mauritius. They have pioneered a winning recipe: warm hospitality together with generous portions and today call themselves “the official restaurant for the South African family.” Spur now adds to this winning recipe by combining Skyrove’s Wi-Fi solution into the mix thus offering another value added service to business people, travellers, or parents that want to surf the net while their kids are being entertained by one of Spur’s many child attractions. One can now go to any Spur Restaurant around the country, have a great tasting meal and access Skyrove’s prepaid wireless internet. To find a Spur Restaurant close to you please visit the store locator