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For the better part of the last 18 months ZOL Zimbabwe has been offering its public wifi service for free. This was free for anyone to use without limits or catches. During this period ZOL requested users to take part in unintrusive surveys.The surveys where design to capture valuable data and wish lists from the users in terms of what they expected from a world class public wifi service. This was with an aim to bring our customers a brand new, feature rich public wifi service. This new service is world class, offering unparalleled convenience, flexibility and easy of use.

Welcome to our revamped ZOLspot. We introduce to you our pre-paid public wifi service. ZOL still offers you ways to access free complimentary service. . . we will also discuss these.

ZOL have invested massively in replacing old wifi infrastructure with new state of the art equipment. ZOL partnered with one of the world’s leading wifi equipment vendor to design a custom made solution that is tailor-made to suit the Zimbabwean environment. This solution offers simplicity in deployment, management and use. The new platform makes use of cutting edge wifi technology like MIMO, beam-forming and interference mitigation technology. ZOL’s new infrastructure has real-time monitoring and reporting built in so that issues can be fixed faster and automatically.

The access points themselves are smarter, in the event of certain problems they can self heal and send out alerts to the administrators. This brings about unparalleled reliability. All this technology is focused on one thing. . . a world class service to the man on the street!

The new wifi infrastructure brings far higher performance and reliability. The ZOL platform has been tried and tested having being used to provide service to densely populated events such as the Hifa 2015, ZITF, IAD summit and UNWTO. Over the week of Hifa, ZOL had 3000+ unique devices accessing free ZOL wifi during the event which collectively accessed over 1TB of data, Yes over 1 Terabyte!!

Through the extensive preparatory work done over the past 18 months, ZOL have design service packages that are simply ahead of all the other services offered in the public wifi space in Zimbabwe. The packages deliver speed, reliability and about all massive bundles to suit any pocket.

ZOL is offering 5GB starting at $15 that’s more than 3x the amount of data for that same $1 spent on rival services. Your hard earned dollar even stretches further when you opt for higher bundles.

There is flexible validity for bundles at 30, 60 and 90 days. Top-ups will be super easy via a modern portal page. ZOL has brought the convenience of e-commerce to the user. All bundles and top-ups can be made via Ecocash, Pay-now and other popular mobile and online payment methods available in Zimbabwe.

For existing ZOL customers with an active fibroniks connection you can register devices for free unlimited access to ZOLspots nationwide. The number of devices you can register depends on the package you are on. Call it home away from Home. This provides the registered users with automatic access to ZOLspots with the registered devices. This is done on myzol.co.zw.

The new ZOLspot solution brings higher security — its no secret that open wifi hotspots are not very secure in terms of privacy by nature. Until now there hasn’t really been a solution to the problem at scale especially in the Zimbabwe Market, well now there is, ZOL runs a parallel wifi SSID alongside ZOLspot called ZOLsecure. ZOLsecure uses industry standard WPA2-Enterprise/802.1x encryption to secure the connection from the moment it leaves your laptop. This protects the user from preying eyes and those malicious types won’t be able to see what you are doing on the internet. Overally ZOLspot wifi will bring higher reliability that has already been proven over the last 18 months, as well as better speeds and far greater coverage both at small sites and complex venues.

ZOL has over 200 ZOLspots across the whole of Zimbabwe and more being added each week. This makes ZOL the most extensive public wifi service in Zimbabwe. ZOL plans to expand this service to well over 500 ZOLspots across the country. The company continues to invest in technology and partnerships to foster growth within the IT industry as well as all industries.