How wireless internet connectivity can support business needs in remote or temporary locations

Despite the phenomenal growth in fiber networks in the United States the fact remains that some locations are still not reachable by a conventional wireline connection. Traditional wired internet infrastructure often does not reach rural, remote, or temporary locations. Wireless solutions can bridge this gap, providing users access to vital services like education, healthcare, and communication. In other cases, such as disaster relief efforts, construction sites, or outdoor events, wireless networks can be quickly deployed to meet immediate connectivity needs.

However, these solutions beg the question: Just how connected are temporary connectivity solutions? In some cases, an organization's best bet may be to employ an enterprise-grade wireless experience with a simple, all-inclusive solution that delivers internet, cloud or SD-WAN connectivity without sacrificing signal quality. 

There are compelling use cases for powerful and secure temporary connectivity. One specific case is the manufacturing firm, CAPA, whose business often takes them to remote locations in the Rio Grande Valley, Texas. CAPA counts on mobile plants to extract and process materials. These plants are usually set up in remote locations where getting a signal can be challenging. Staying connected with a widely dispersed network of plants is critical to CAPA’s growth plans as it expands operations.

Extracting, manufacturing, and delivering materials to specific locations requires the ability to set up new operations in some very remote places quickly. For that, CAPA employs temporary connectivity that links their remote locations directly to their network infrastructure. “In the past, setting up a new project site could take four months, but our clients will want it right away,” Jorge Salem, Information Technology Manager, explains. “Now ... we can move to a new piece of land, say a location in the middle of a big desert, and link it up to our network.”

What makes the “magic,” as Salem puts it, is a comprehensive network platform, with wireless internet capacity. This includes a managed firewall that protects CAPA from cyberattacks and a teleworker device that enables full connectivity to and from remote sites anywhere in the nation where 5G/ LTE/wireless service is available.

Use cases for temporary connectivity across industries

Healthcare: When setting up a healthcare field clinic, network connectivity is of primary concern for the medical equipment onsite. Doctors and nurses depend on a fast, secure and reliable internet connection to help inform triage, and diagnosis and then to prescribe basic patient care, all while reporting activity back to the overarching healthcare infrastructure. Hospitals’ IT staff are seldom, if ever, equipped to deal with the challenges of establishing a wireless network connection at a remote or disaster-struck location.

Hospitality: When hospitality companies host music and food festivals, they need to make sure that venues such as farms, rented homes, or public parks have the necessary infrastructure to handle the high demand for internet connectivity. It can be challenging to transmit video from the event to a monitoring location, especially at large-scale events which call for active crowd monitoring and have limited access to fiber. To tackle this challenge, opting for a temporary wireless connectivity solution can be a crucial and cost-effective option.

Retail: At retail and in hospitality, a surge in pop-up stores and restaurants supported by larger organizations has led to a greater need for temporary connectivity services. At retail, pop-up locations need greater accessibility to supply chain operations and in hospitality, the same would apply for their necessary supplies. Additionally, both forms of organizations need reliable connectivity to accept and report payments back to headquarters.

Construction: Usually, a construction company will have employees spread over multiple job sites. On individual job sites, workers are often disconnected from supervisors. Revised work orders from off-site engineers can result in hours of lost productivity, whereas timely wherever-whenever communications mean that supervisors and workers can adjust planned activities accordingly and immediately, with no downtime. Historically, business leaders in construction have searched for ever more effective ways of keeping their mobile, on-site, and home office staff connected. Temporary connectivity solutions are ideal in these situations, prior to the installation of wired infrastructure.

What to look for in a temporary solution

Organizations should seek out wireless internet solutions that connect a location to the internet with a simple, all-inclusive, and diverse wireless access solution when experience and network quality are important. ​ 

These solutions can include the wireless data plan plus wireless device, installation, configuration, and support. ​They should provide a range of wireless device options and data plans that ensure the solution is tailored for each location and infrastructure. The best solution should be able to access multiple national wireless carriers to provide organizations with broad coverage over a network that is diverse from wireline and provides a strong, optimized signal at each location, nationwide.​

​How Spectrum Enterprise can help

We provide an enterprise-grade wireless experience with a simple, all-inclusive tailored solution that delivers internet, cloud, or SD-WAN connectivity without sacrificing signal quality. We use multiple wireless carriers that enable a strong, optimized signal to be delivered to each location, nationwide. Other providers are limited to the performance of one wireless signal at a specific location and may not offer the depth of wireline services that we provide.​

Our Wireless Internet service provides a comprehensive solution that allows the customer to select a wireless device and data plan and is sold together with professional installation, configuration, activation, maintenance and 24/7/365 U.S.-based technical support. Multiple service options include 5G for high-speed or 4G/LTE for cost-effective ubiquitous coverage.​

See why organizations nationwide partner with Spectrum Enterprise for wireless internet solutions.