Archipelago speeds up Indonesian hotel Wi-Fi
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Archipelago International is planning to significantly increase the Wi-Fi speeds at its Indonesian hotels.
The company has secured an exclusive deal with PT Telekomunikasi Indonesia to introduce internet connections of 100 megabits per second, via a fibre-optic cable. At present, most Indonesian hotels only offer speeds of around 5-10 mbps.
“We’re very excited to be able to so dramatically increase the total amount of bandwidth available to our hotels and thus to our guests,” said Jules Brookfield, vice president of technology at Archipelago International. “Nearly all of our hotel owners have expressed a strong desire to have their hotel connected at such a dramatically improved speed.
“We’re also very pleased that we’re able to offer this great deal all across the archipelago; not just Java, Bali [and] Sumatra, but Kalimantan and Sulawesi and beyond where internet speeds traditionally tend to be extremely expensive, slow and unreliable.
“Improvements like these give me great hope in the future of Indonesia and the hospitality industry here,” he added.
Archipelago admitted that many guests may have experienced a “strange phenomenon”, whereby the internet speed is good for a while and then becomes almost unusable. It attributed this to the fact that most hotels don’t have enough bandwidth to share among all guests at the same time. But according to Archipelago, the new service will “dramatically reduce the chances of this happening”.
Archipelago offers free Wi-Fi at almost all its hotels in Indonesia, but in a recent report by Hotel WiFi Test, some of the company’s brands ranked close to the bottom for internet quality. This was mainly due to the overall quality of Indonesian hotel internet, rather than a reflection on the company itself, and the new initiative should allow Archipelago to significantly improve its Wi-Fi services, and climb up the Hotel WiFi Test list.
Archipelago, which includes the Aston, Favehotel and NEO hotel brands among others, said it is working “as fast as possible” to roll out the new Wi-Fi connectivity across its portfolio, although it admitted the project would “take a while”.
So far, 30 of the company’s 100+ hotels have been equipped with the new high-speed connection.
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