Commercial guest WiFi solutions for UK businesses.
Branded captive portals, GDPR-compliant email capture, time-limited sessions, separation from corporate traffic — Telexico designs commercial guest WiFi that delivers customer experience and marketing value, without compromising operational network security.
What we hear every week.
The frustrations behind why businesses search for commercial guest wifi solutions in the first place. If any of these feel familiar, the fix is straightforward.
Guest WiFi on the same network as EPOS and accounts
Some businesses give guests the corporate WiFi password — security and performance disaster waiting to happen. Proper guest WiFi is on a separate VLAN, completely segregated.
Wasted marketing opportunity
Customers using your guest WiFi are giving you a chance to capture email or social details for marketing — GDPR-compliant, properly opted in. Most businesses don't take it.
Generic captive portals that look unprofessional
Off-the-shelf captive portals look like 1990s tech. A branded captive portal reinforces your brand and customer experience.
No time limits = WiFi abuse
Customers parked outside on free WiFi, residents next door piggy-backing your bandwidth — time-limited sessions stop the abuse.
Commercial guest WiFi, designed properly
Telexico designs commercial guest WiFi as a separate VLAN from corporate traffic — guest devices can't see or reach your EPOS, accounts, CCTV or staff devices. **Captive portal:** branded to your business, asks for email or social login (Facebook, Google), accepts terms, then grants access. **GDPR-compliant data capture:** opt-in for marketing where appropriate, data stored and managed compliantly. **Time-limited sessions:** typical 1-4 hour limits, configurable by business type and customer expectation. **Bandwidth shaping:** guest traffic shaped so it can't slow critical business operations. **Reporting:** see how many guests connect, peak times, customer patterns, marketing capture rates. **Integration:** marketing email lists feed into Mailchimp, HubSpot, or your CRM. Useful for restaurants, hotels, retail, healthcare waiting rooms, professional service reception areas, leisure venues — anywhere you have customer dwell-time.
The Telexico approach to commercial guest wifi solutions.
Six things our customers consistently tell us matter.
Separated from corporate network
Dedicated VLAN — guests can't see or reach your business systems. Security and performance both protected.
Branded captive portal
Your logo, your colours, your messaging — guest sees your brand before they get internet access.
GDPR-compliant email capture
Marketing-friendly opt-in flow, proper consent capture, data stored compliantly — building your customer mailing list cleanly.
Time-limited sessions
Stops WiFi abuse — customers get the experience they need, parked-outside chancers don't get a free ride.
Reporting and analytics
Guest count, peak times, return-visitor rates, marketing capture conversion — operational and marketing visibility.
CRM and email platform integration
Captured emails feed into Mailchimp, HubSpot, Klaviyo or your CRM — leads flow into your existing marketing pipeline.
Built for UK businesses with customer dwell-time
Guest WiFi delivers most value where customers spend time on premises — restaurants over a meal, hotels for the stay, cafés for the visit, retail with browsing time, healthcare waiting rooms, professional service reception areas. The captive portal becomes a brand interaction; the email capture builds the mailing list; the experience builds customer goodwill. Designed properly, it's marketing infrastructure as much as connectivity.
How it works for businesses like yours.
Three real-world setups we deliver across the UK.
Restaurants, pubs, cafés
Guests over a meal or coffee — branded portal, social login, email capture, separate from EPOS.
Hotels and accommodation
In-room WiFi with branded portal, PMS integration for room-based authentication, separate from staff and admin networks.
Healthcare waiting rooms
Patient experience in waiting areas, GDPR-compliant data handling, separated from clinical network.
Why UK businesses choose Telexico for commercial guest WiFi
Telexico designs and deploys commercial guest WiFi across UK hospitality, retail, healthcare and professional services. Branded captive portals, GDPR-compliant data capture, VLAN segregation, CRM integration. UK engineers, UK support, one provider for the WiFi plus the broadband plus the phones plus the AI receptionist.
What you actually get from Telexico.
Honest about scope. No aggressive sales tactics, no surprise renewal jumps, no tier-1 call-centre triage. Real UK engineers, transparent pricing, one provider relationship across the stack.
UK-based provider
Wolverhampton-headquartered. Engineers cover the West Midlands daily; UK-wide install via our partner network. Real UK engineer support, UK data residency, UK contractual relationship — not US-routed SaaS.
Real engineer support
When you call Telexico, you reach someone who can actually fix things. Response SLA backed by real engineering capacity rather than call-centre headcount. Named account manager for ongoing customers.
Free infrastructure review
Every engagement starts with a no-obligation audit of your current setup. Honest recommendation — sometimes that's "stay with your current provider after negotiation." We'd rather be honest than oversell.
Transparent pricing
What you sign for is what you pay — including renewal. No teaser pricing that jumps 30-100% at year two. No mid-contract CPI shock. Predictable multi-year cost from day one.
One provider, one platform
Broadband, hosted VoIP, business WiFi, AI Receptionist, 4G/5G failover, CCTV consolidated onto one Telexico relationship. Single bill, single support number, single engineer when something needs attention.
Migration project-managed
Switching to Telexico isn't DIY. We handle contract audit, notice timing, ordering, parallel running, cutover, old-provider close-out. Customer-visible disruption typically measured in minutes.
Tailored around your business.
Tell us what you have now and what's frustrating you. We'll come back with a tailored review of where we can simplify, consolidate or improve it — no fixed-package pressure, no hard sell.
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Frequently asked questions
How does this differ from Telexico's vertical-specific guest WiFi pages?
The vertical-specific pages (guest-wifi-for-hotels, guest-wifi-for-restaurants) cover the use cases for those particular industries. This page covers commercial guest WiFi solutions across industries — the buyer who's searching for guest WiFi as a solution they can deploy at their business, regardless of vertical. Same underlying capability, different entry point for your search intent.
Is the captive portal really branded?
Yes — proper custom branding. Your logo, colours, fonts, imagery; your messaging; your terms of service. Guests see your brand experience before getting internet access. We handle the design as part of the deployment or accept your existing creative assets.
Is GDPR-compliant data capture difficult?
Done correctly, no. The captive portal asks for explicit marketing opt-in (clearly worded, separate checkbox), stores consent records, allows easy unsubscribe. Data flows into your existing marketing platform with the consent metadata. Standard GDPR-compliant flow that we've built many times.
How does it integrate with my email marketing?
Standard integrations with Mailchimp, HubSpot, Klaviyo, Constant Contact, and most major UK SME email/CRM platforms. Captured email goes into your platform with consent metadata; you trigger your normal email flows from there.
What about social login (Facebook, Google)?
Available — captive portal supports email login, social login, or both. Social login (Facebook, Google) increases capture rate but captures less marketing data; email login captures more data with marginally lower conversion. We help pick based on your priorities.
Can guests download a lot of data on guest WiFi?
Bandwidth shaping prevents guest traffic from slowing your business operations. Time-limited sessions stop indefinite abuse. Some businesses limit per-session data; others don't. Configurable to fit your customer experience expectation.
How much does commercial guest WiFi cost?
Depends on premises size and captive portal complexity. Indicative: one-off install £500-3,000 (depending on AP count and cabling); monthly managed service £30-200; captive portal customisation £200-1,500. Real quotes against your specific premises and operation.
Apply this to your business?
Reading the guide is one thing; applying it to your specific operation is another. Send us your current setup — we'll review what you have, what fits, and where to start. No hard sell, no fixed-package pressure.