RebelRoam currently provides onboard Wi-Fi Data Traffic Optimization Service to more than four million passengers monthly, aboard over 4,000 cruise ships, ferries, buses, coaches and trains throughout forty European and North American countries.
By reducing the traffic traversing the cellular backhaul, RebelRocket improves the passenger experience and reduces consumption and cost of Wi-Fi service. RebelRoam has proven in multiple terrestrial passenger transportation use cases (bus, river cruise, ocean cruise and train) the technology and benefits to the operators and passengers onboard.
Read more in the case studies below.
FlixBus offers their passengers free onboard Wi-Fi with an allowance of 150 MB where Netflix and YouTube are blocked but social media video is allowed. With video sharing in social media becoming more popular and organic data consumption growing at 25% annually, FlixBus recognized the need to keep up with this demand and equipped their fleet with high-performance Icomera X³ multi-radio mobile access & applications routers.
Oxford Bus Company is regularly commended for its achievements in enhancing the customer experience. Constantly finding ways to keep up with passengers’ demands, meet expectations and stay ahead of the competition, Oxford Bus Company and RebelRoam are now working together to achieve all these and more.
GCCL offers their guests free onboard Wi-Fi throughout the duration of the cruise with access to browsing, social media and YouTube. Their main challenge is balancing the quality and the cost. On one side, passengers have a growing demand and increasing data consumption and on the other side, GCCL needs to keep their Wi-Fi budget under control.
Uniworld Boutique River Cruises ensures impeccable quality in everything they offer to their guests including their complimentary onboard Wi-Fi. With RebelRoam’s help, Uniworld is now providing their guests good quality, free and unlimited onboard Wi-Fi while at the same time reducing mobile broadband costs by up to 80%, keeping the company’s Wi-Fi budget under control.
American Queen Steamboat needed to improve the Wi-Fi experience aboard his vessels. Passengers complained that Wi-Fi was too slow. Plan limits were regularly exceeded, and use was growing. Constrained by cellular capacity along the Mississippi River and the cost of satellite connectivity, increasing bandwidth was not the answer.
AirAsia offers 3MB to 50MB data packages. Passengers can purchase larger data allowances for expanded online activities. ROKKI realized that in many cases passengers consumed their data limit allowance before they completed their intended tasks. Increasing data limits would meet passenger needs but was not feasible given the high cost of satellite connectivity.
The RebelRocket is part of a project that has received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement Nº806295