The next round of the biggest running event in the Aachen region is here. This year’s 5th Aachen Corporate Running Challenge will bring together regional companies in a friendly sports event. Some of our m3connect GmbH colleagues will also be donning their running shoes. Ten of our highly motivated runners will be rounding Melaten Campus tomorrow under the motto “We’re running Wireless”. We are looking forward to an exciting event and wish all runners the very best of luck!
Are you ready for digital change? A question that many retailers are faced with. You are increasingly confronted with demands to implement new and innovative solutions to stay abreast of latest trends. Digital progress stimulates customers into expecting more from their shopping experience. What would a digitalisation strategy look like in terms of implementation?
In collaboration with our partner LANCOM, we present one possible vision of the future of shopping at the home interiors store Mathes. The interconnection between the online and offline world plays an important role in this concept. Mathes customers will be able to go online quickly and easily via the free WiFi connection for guests. Customers are offered a special incentive as part of the Aachen 2025 initiative. Anyone using the customer WiFi at the Mathes store will receive additional shopping discounts at the online shop of the subsidiary company design-bestseller and the online bike shop bike-components. Aside from the mobile access via smartphone, customers are additionally offered permanent terminals on the shop floor to allow some leisurely browsing of the extended online shop area. Online access is offered here for iPads and PCs as well.
Discover tomorrow’s retail world first hand at the home interiors store Mathes until 6:00 pm today. Come and have a look! We are looking forward to seeing you there.
We are an official sponsor of Aachen 2025. LANCOM and m3connect jointly present digitalisation in retail at Mathes.
Free WiFi, provided by LANCOM and m3connect will be available for customers at Mathes on September 23-24, 2016. Customers can easily sign in via smartphone. Permanent terminals inside the shop will additionally allow direct product orders. Special offers from the Mathes online shop and bike-components can also be accessed. Digital signage monitors on the shop floor offer additional information about latest offers and promotions. Please speak to one of our representatives at our information stand if you have any questions about the implementation of our technologies.
We are looking forward to welcome you personally on September 23 between 10:00 am and 8:00 pm and on September 24 between 10 am and 6:00 pm. Here is the location for your SatNav: Büchel 29-31, 52062 Aachen
Please click here for more information about the initiative Aachen 2025 and the Shopping theme park.
At HITEC 2016 m3connect and Kathrein are presenting their new infrastructure solution, called connunity. Connunity will revolutionize mobile radio communication in buildings and the cable-less installation of WIFI as a future-proof infrastructure.
By combining K-BOW, Kathrein’s offering for providing mobile radio in buildings, with m3connect’s WiFi cloud-based technology, it will become possible to deliver mobile radio of more than one provider and WiFi over the same infrastucture even in smaller buildings.
This solution matches the requirements operators of buildings, like hotelchains or corporations, for optimal connectivity. Moreover network operators can react quickly to requirements their customers have.
Right on time for the start of HiTec 2016 in New Orleans, we are proud to present our new look. We hope you enjoy exploring our new site and are looking forward to your feedback as well as inquiries about our services. We will be pleased to meet you at our stand (no. 1754). We look forward to an opportunity for personal exchange.
We are proud that our customer, Comfort Hotel Friedrichhafen, has won the award for “Best International Hotel of 2016”. Every two years, Choice Hotels, one of the world’s largest hotel chains, awards this title. As one of the first hotels to choose conn4 as a complete solution, the Comfort Hotel Friedrichshafen put itself ahead of the competition in Las Vegas, and was chosen as the winner by the Choice Hotels Group. With conn4, we are pleased to be contributing to this outstanding achievement, and offer our congratulations on this great performance.
m3connect has already launched their new conn4 solution in Texas in June this year. conn4 is the first and only solution that combines all the important hospitality IT based services into one single product. Digital Signage, Wi-Fi portals, Guest Infotainment, VoD, VoIP, Room TV portals with personalized welcome messages and marketing campaigns can be created easily and displayed on all devices with the centralized conn4 dashboard and it’s integrated CMS. conn4 also interfaces with the most common PMS systems and invoices can thus be created in an elegant and customer friendly way. Tariffs can be changed within seconds. Reports can be created for all areas with the click of one button and exported in all common formats.
Visit our conn4 website: www.conn4.com
Partnering with Vodafone, m3connect operates the WiFi installations on all boats of the Bavarian Lakes Waterway as an offer for the passengers and the ship’s crew. Now you can surf the internet or immediately send souvenir photos and selfies all over the world while on board. The ships are equipped with LTE routers, that connect to Vodafone LTE transmission towers on land. Internet access is free on board.
The project “WiFi on Bavarian Lakes” is part of the digitization plans in Bavaria: “Broadband Expansion, BayernPortal, BayerLabs and The Initiativ Free WiFi in Bavaria are the pillars of digitization in rural areas” said Markus Söder, Minister of Finance, Freistaat Bayern.
We are delighted to be able to contribute to this project.
Manager Magazin, and most recently Der Spiegel www.spiegel.de, published the details of a survey by online reputation management provider Reputami. Unfortunately, the study “Internet in German Hotels — The Status Quo” confirmed that Germany was in last place in Europe when it comes to customer satisfaction with Internet issues. More than 4 million online ratings of about 13,000 hotels were evaluated. Complaints mainly involved the lack of WiFi and the slow speed. But even in this study, an Accor hotel came out best. Winning in the German comparison is Ibis Syles Munich East, a hotel run by our partner BHKV Hospitality, a franchisee of Accor Hotellerie Deutschland.
You can download Reputami’s full study here.
A current press release from our partner Accor Hotellerie Deutschland is available at www.finanznachrichten.de.
For a few weeks, we have been enhancing the hotels of our new customer Leonardo. We look forward to upcoming tests, which will put Leonardo hotels in top spots, too.
Our partners Accor Hotellerie Deutschland and BHKV Hospitality (an Accor franchisee) make an impressive showing in independent tests of customer satisfaction. Congratulations to our business partners and their hotels on their outstanding test results. Their decision to go with fiber optic connections was absolutely right.
Quote: “Eight Accor hotels placed in the top 10 — no wonder, because Germany’s largest hotel chain has equipped all its locations with ultramodern fiber optic networks. This brings enormous advantages for WiFi access.”
It was nine, to be exact, because Adaggio is also an Accor brand.
The hotel Wi-Fi test took place during the ITB in Berlin on March 4–8, 2015, You can find the complete results here: www.hotelwifitest.com/events/itb-berlin2015/
At the same time, of course, we are also very proud of the results for the Accor hotels, all of which we serve. We installed the networks and, under contract with Accor, operate all Internet-related areas of the hotels.