Ultrapower Sails to the Overseas (III): RoamWiFi, Connecting the World with Traffic Flow

In several terminals of an international airport in Southeast Asia, there are numerous service counters where RoamWiFi devices can be rented. Travellers using RoamWiFi's cross-border network connection service can enjoy local nationals' Internet access in their travel destination countries/regions, and enjoy the convenience of high-speed mobile networks.

At present, 160+ countries and regions around the world can enjoy RoamWiFi's network connection service. Since 2014, the business has provided services for more than 10 million people in the world.

In Africa, the heavy machinery of a well-known Chinese large-scale mechanical engineering company carries out infrastructure work in numerous construction sites, which have backward network information infrastructure and poor network coverage.

However, the operation data of the machinery and equipment distributed in these remote areas are transmitted in real time through the RoamLink IoT network solution programme embedded in the communication module of the heavy machinery. Enterprises can clearly see the running status and operation information of these overseas equipment on the management platform, thus making it easier and more efficient to manage the scattered machinery and equipment intensively and digitally.

From to B to to C, the operator's business blooms new flowers

The business of "RoamWiFi" originated from the international roaming dialling technology developed by Ultrapower for carrier networks. This technology has not only achieved more than expected application results on the operator side, but also allowed Ultrapower to see the possibility of transforming the technology into standardized products and the vast market space in the future.

In 2014, with the international roaming dialing technology team as the base, Tianjin RoamWiFi Technology Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as “Tianjin RoamWiFi”) was established by Ultrapower to provide inexpensive global data traffic services for cross-border scenarios.

The first scene of this business is the mobile WiFi for cross-border people, and RoamWiFi was born.

RoamWiFi is the first standardized hardware product of Ultrapower for C-users, which solves the problem of roaming network access for cross-border travellers. RoamWiFi's tariffs are cost-effective and flexible, and one device can be connected to multiple terminals to meet the convenience of sharing one WiFi device for multiple travellers. At the same time, users can choose between "on-demand use" and "day use" billing modes according to their own usage habits and needs.

After the establishment of Tianjin RoamWiFi, it has developed rapidly, with revenue exceeding RMB 100 million yuan in 2019, and now has become one of the export head enterprises in Tianjin Binhai New Area. RoamWiFi network supports and covers six continents, with hundreds of partners in more than a dozen countries and regions around the world.

RoamWiFi, riding the wave and invigorating!

RoamWiFi's performance has climbed significantly, and it is like splitting bamboo. However, the sudden COVID-19 made the cross-border traffic service business blocked, and the industry as a whole in the doldrums. In the midst of the difficulties, RoamWiFi, with years of steady operation and corporate sustainability layout, continued to try to open up the market and refine the technology and services.

In 2022, when cross-border travel started to be liberalized, the performance was rapidly improved, in which the RoamWiFi outbound WiFi devices in overseas market continued to make great efforts, and RoamWiFi ushered in a new opportunity to gradually come out of the fog, and the business rebounded and regained its vitality.

In 2023, RoamWiFi continued to provide convenient cross-border network services for outbound users by relying on the self-help pick-up and return service system distributed in major domestic outbound airports.

New journey, sailing to the overseas with the "Made in China"

In 2024, the State Council government work report included “strengthening the standard leadership and quality support, creating more 'Made in China' brands with international influence” in this year's work tasks, the manufacturing industry sailing to the overseas has become an inevitable trend of China's economic development. At present, a large number of outstanding enterprises represented by Chinese technology and Chinese brands are accelerating overseas layout, exploring new growth points.

RoamWiFi seizes the change of international development situation, along with the growth of cross-border data traffic demand, has had the service scope gradually expanded from the cross-border personnel's portable WiFi, to the direction of cross-border IOT evolution.

In 2021, RoamWiFi launched RoamLink, an embedded communication solution with IoT as the scenario, to provide cross-border data traffic service for the manufacturing industry's overseas projects, especially for the high-end manufacturing industry that requires higher stability of cross-border data traffic, which allows RoamWiFi to face a broader global IoT market.

“Network services are the foundation of the Internet of everything. Both the Internet of people and the Internet of things are running on the infrastructure of network connectivity.

The business design of RoamWiFi is to take the independent hardware products as the carrier, leverage the embedded network connection service as a bridge, and provide global mobile network data traffic services for the equipment and the Internet of Things terminals under all kinds of cross-border business scenarios. In this direction, we believe our market is big enough.” The person in charge of RoamWiFi business is incredibly proud when talking about the development of RoamWiFi.

Sailing to the overseas to serve China's digital transformation

China's policy of adhering to a high level of opening up to the outside world remains unchanged, and under the strong impetus of enterprises seeking to develop, it will continue to be a new growth path for many enterprises to go to the overseas.

In recent years, with more than 20 years of technological advantages as a strong grip, Ultrapower has actively responded to the opportunities and challenges of the international market, adhered to the development strategy of "innovation-driven, global layout", and continued to grow its revenue from the overseas business.

In 2024, Ultrapower will continue to strengthen the application of technological innovation in the digital transformation of different industry scenarios, grasp its unique competitive advantages, and further approach the international market.

In the future, with the continuous progress of technology and the expansion of application scenarios, Digital Intelligence will play an even more important role in the development of enterprise globalization, so that Made in China will become Intelligent Manufacturing in China, and help Chinese enterprises to globalize and develop sustainably.