TIM brings innovation to its corporate clients’ mobile strategies with Wiman WiFi connectivity solution for 4G network.
Partnership with Wiman, the sharing economy WiFi company and the developer of the technology which offers WiFi connectivity in taxis, buses and retail locations through the TIM 4G network.
Attentive to market needs and innovating again, TIM launches a pioneering solution delivering WiFi connectivity services routed through its mobile network to any user of the mobile operator’s corporate clients integrated mobile apps, making it available to end user customers or visitors to their retail locations through WiFi networks already existing in their stores, without the need for investment in new equipment. One needs only install the mobile application (“mobile app”) of the company integrated with our solution and your customers can seamlessly and securely authenticate via their smartphones transparently in the background to the WiFi. This solution has as corporate clients focusing on retail segments such as restaurants and hospitality, for example.
Another interesting application is in the automotive sector. The company deploys the solution as a driver-side application which enables the driver’s smartphone to operate as a secure WiFi router, providing their passengers automatic and seamless connectivity to the in-car WiFi network via a passenger app. In this case all the internet connection is made via the TIM 4G network. Taxi companies or public transport are target customers of this solution.
These two modes will give corporate clients access to a web portal where you can monitor the access statistics on the network, see who is connected and generate reports (access time, device type, number of users, by the user connections and the customer, average per day, hour, month). You can also control the maximum connection time, the amount of MB available for each user, set the connection timeout and notify the connection of the end user.
To provide the service, the operator has adopted an innovative technology developed by Wiman, the technology startup that received investment from TIM Ventures, the Telecom Italia Group, controller of TIM Brazil.
The SDK is a secure and seamless public WiFi sharing solution, which has entered the market as a rival to Hotspots 2.0 technology, yet more cost effective and innovative. This solution uses WiFi routers that are already deployed and integrates with any Android or iOS smartphone app while respecting all rules of the Brazilian Internet Marco Civil.
“The market demand for mobile WiFi connectivity is a reality in Brazil and we are providing a pioneering service for our corporate clients. We invest heavily in the expansion and qualification of our 4G network. We want to provide a broadband experience of high quality automatically to customers” said Rafael Marquez, Marketing Director for the Corporate Market of TIM Brazil.
“All companies know that connectivity is essential to keep happy and engaged customers. With that in mind, we built a smart WiFi sharing technology, which is placed in the market as a simple and innovative solution compared with Hotspots 2.0” says Paolo Di Loreto, Partner of Wiman Brazil.
TIM already has a customer using the solution within the automotive sector. The DETAXI application company in the city of Rio de Janeiro. Today, passengers who have installed the company’s DETAXI application have access to free WiFi in accredited taxis during the duration of their trip through TIM’s 4G network.
Have a look at the Wiman mobile SDK video!
