Every guest who walks into your venue already pays a mobile carrier for connectivity.
That monthly subscription covers calls, messaging, and data access wherever they go. When those subscribers step inside buildings where outdoor cellular towers can’t reliably deliver service, the carrier is still on the hook for maintaining the connection.
LongFi Connect lets carriers meet that obligation using your existing Wi-Fi infrastructure. In return, they compensate LongFi Solutions, which shares that revenue with your venue. Indoor connectivity becomes a monthly payout stream.
1. Guests already pay for mobile service inside your venue
Mobile carriers aren’t paying for connectivity out of some new budget line. They’re delivering service that subscribers already purchased.
Every smartphone that enters your venue represents an active service relationship between a carrier and its customer. Those plans are expected to work for:
- Voice calls
- Messaging
- Navigation
- Payments
- Streaming
- Social sharing
Inside restaurants, hotels, gyms, clinics, retail spaces — anywhere people go with their phones.
People spend roughly 90% of their time indoors and up to 80% of mobile data gets consumed there. Indoor performance is one of the largest service obligations carriers carry. The payments tied to LongFi Connect come from that existing subscriber demand.
2. Carriers struggle to deliver strong indoor signal from outdoor towers
Most cellular infrastructure was built to serve streets, highways, and neighborhoods. Indoor environments are a fundamentally different problem.
Concrete, steel, and energy-efficient glass weaken radio signals before they reach users inside buildings. As networks move toward higher-frequency 5G spectrum, that signal loss gets worse, not better.
On top of that, dense indoor environments pack large numbers of users into small areas. In many busy venues, indoor users generate 1.5 to 2 times more traffic per device than outdoor users.
Carriers still have to deliver reliable service in those conditions. The subscription already includes it.
3. LongFi Connect lets existing Wi-Fi carry carrier traffic securely
LongFi Connect is a network integration service from LongFi Solutions that enables supported smartphones to authenticate automatically using carrier SIM credentials and connect through participating indoor Wi-Fi environments.
Instead of depending only on the nearest outdoor radio tower, devices can use enterprise-grade indoor infrastructure as part of the carrier’s coverage footprint.
The industry term for this is cellular offload.
Cellular offload moves traffic from licensed spectrum to trusted Wi-Fi networks. Performance improves for the user, and congestion drops on nearby towers. Because the subscriber experience gets better and network costs go down, carriers are willing to compensate for that connectivity.
4. Your venue earns monthly revenue from the connectivity it helps deliver
When supported smartphones connect through LongFi Connect:
- Guests enter with active mobile subscriptions
- Devices authenticate automatically using carrier credentials
- Indoor traffic moves across your wireless network
- Carriers recognize the coverage contribution
- LongFi shares resulting revenue with your venue
The payments come from carriers fulfilling service expectations already baked into their customers’ plans. LongFi Connect lets those carriers deliver indoor connectivity more efficiently using infrastructure that’s already in place.
Why this model exists now
Mobile data demand keeps growing every year, driven largely by video, which now accounts for about 76% of total mobile traffic globally.
Most of that usage happens indoors, exactly where traditional tower-only coverage strategies perform the worst. The economics have shifted: rather than building out dedicated indoor radio at every location, carriers increasingly rely on trusted Wi-Fi infrastructure to extend their coverage footprint indoors.
LongFi Connect lets venues participate directly in that shift and get compensated for the connectivity they help deliver to existing carrier subscribers.
References
[1] Ericsson. Optimizing indoor connectivity – Ericsson Mobility Report. https://www.ericsson.com/en/reports-and-papers/mobility-report/articles/mobile-broadband-indoor-deployment
[2] Ericsson. Planning in-building coverage for 5G: from rules of thumb to statistics and AI. https://www.ericsson.com/en/reports-and-papers/mobility-report/articles/indoor-outdoor
[3] SIIT. Cellular Offload Economics: Why Carriers Pay for Passpoint-Ready Wi-Fi. https://siit.co/guestposts/cellular-offload-economics-why-carriers-pay-for-passpoint-ready-wi-fi/
[4] Ericsson. Mobile network traffic Q4 2025 – Ericsson Mobility Report. https://www.ericsson.com/en/reports-and-papers/mobility-report/dataforecasts/mobile-traffic-update