RedButton Internet Blog

Article by: Rike Roper & Jalal Ghiassi-Razavi Have you ever thought to yourself that RedButton Internet is more expensive than some of the other offerings available in the market?  Do you think that there are other more cost effective, convenient and affordable ways of accessing the world wide web?  Does it leave you feeling disgruntled [...]

RedButton appeared in the news recently, read more about RedButton’s growing partnership with WebAfrica here: Connectivity with a Cuppa

Once in a while we break away from the office to do a bit of good old fashioned team building. On this occasion, we went to the Vodacom World of Golf in Tygervalley, near Cape Town, and it all ended in a putt-off between Barry & Shafiqa, with Shafiqa taking the honours. Another winner that [...]

A major factor in the quality of your web experience is the response time between a link being clicked and the result being displayed. This response time is dependent on various factors, the health of your computer, the quality of your link to the Internet and also how “fast” your web browser is. As a [...]

We have grown quite a bit in the last three years, and the following pictures show Team RedButton on the top of Lion’s Head and Kilimanjaro respectively. The more recent 2009 picture was taken at our recent team social at the end of June, while the 2006 picture was taken back in September 2006 on [...]

It’s been a while since we’ve blogged, and this will also be a quick note. We run most of our business on Ubuntu, its a platform that keeps us productive and competitive. In the past we generally purchased entry level laptops with in effect no operating system on it, we would then load Ubuntu on [...]

In this clip Kilian Hagemann delivers RedButton Free WiFi pitch as a part of our initiative to spread the service to all of South Africa and the world beyond. We would like to thank the team at Blue Catalyst for the production of this video clip.

There are a few restaurants in Cape Town that have become synonymous with Free WiFi over the last few years and Sinns, based in trendy Wembley Square, is one of them. Sinns have recently chosen to switch their service, which has been available for a number of years, over to RedButton Free WiFi and are [...]

A belated happy new year! This is just a quick announcement, as an end user, in addition to being able to check your recent sessions using the Account Manager, you can now also check up on the status of a voucher and also see what privileges you have at various hotspots. When you log into [...]

After a series of arduous night marches, we file this dispatch from our Cape Town HQ. Over the last few weeks, the advance of our Free WiFi network has continued unabated. Hard work has met its reward and our hearts stir with gratitude over every inch of ground liberated. This is however just the beginning, [...]