01 / PUBLIC
Guest Festival WiFi
Branded WiFi zones for arenas, campsites, food courts and busy public areas. Free, sponsored, paid voucher or revenue-share models can be built around the event.
Bark & Nurd / Festival WiFi
Keep the field online.
Temporary connectivity for festivals that need more than a hotspot. We connect guests, bars, payments, production, CCTV and event teams — then stay on site to keep it moving.
When the mobile networks fill up, your event still needs to work.That is where Festival WiFi comes in.
Festival WiFi, explained simply
A temporary network for a temporary town.
A festival can go from an empty field to thousands of people, dozens of traders, bars, ticket scanners, production cabins and payment terminals in a matter of days. Public 4G and 5G capacity often cannot keep up.
We provide and manage connectivity across the areas that need it, while keeping guest access separate from the systems that matter to the operation of the event.
One supplier. One network plan. People on site who know how it was built.
What we connect
From the front gate to the last bar.
Use Bark & Nurd for the complete site or for the areas where mobile connectivity simply is not good enough.
02 / MONEY
Bars, traders & payments
Prioritised connectivity for EPOS, card terminals, bars, traders, ticketing and box office systems, kept away from public guest traffic.
03 / OPERATIONS
Production & event teams
Private networks for event control, production offices, security, staff, artist liaison and operational systems that need dependable access.
04 / SITE
CCTV & remote links
Temporary connectivity for cameras, cabins, gates and other parts of the site that need dependable access.
The network is alive
ONE SITE.
ONE SYSTEM.
Guest WiFi, trader connectivity, production access and event operations brought together as one managed service. We design around movement, congestion and the parts of a festival that need dependable connectivity.
Designed for live events
The field changes everything.
Fixed networks get walls, ducts and predictable demand. Festivals get weather, crowds, steel structures, generators and thousands of people moving at once.
That is why we plan Festival WiFi around the real site, expected crowds, busy areas and the people who need dependable connectivity when the gates open.
Built around the event
One network. Different priorities.
Your customers want to message friends. Your bar wants every card payment to clear. Those are not the same requirement, so we do not treat them the same way.
GuestsSimple branded access in the places people actually need it.
TradersStable, controlled connectivity for selling all day.
ProductionPrivate access for teams running the site.
OrganisersA supplier who owns the problem from setup to switch-off.
Example festival layouts
See Festival WiFi in the middle of the action.
A Festival WiFi Hub can become a recognisable guest touchpoint, while WiFi Zones put useful coverage around the busy places people naturally gather. These illustrations are examples only — every festival is laid out differently.
Festival WiFi HubBranded guest hub · example layout · not to scale
Feels part of the festivalBranded boards, flags and a clear guest-facing hub make the service easy to spot without looking like a technical compound.
A place to get connectedGuests have an obvious place to join the WiFi, ask a question or get help during the event.
Flexible footprintThe exact hub position and size can be adapted around arena entrances, bars, campsites or other high-footfall areas.
Festival WiFi Coverage ZoneGuest coverage concept · festival map example · not to scale
Coverage around the crowdWiFi Zones can be placed around arenas, bars, food areas, campsites and other locations where guests spend time.
Clear guest expectationBranded WiFi Zone signage helps visitors understand where coverage is intended to be strongest.
One zone or severalThe concept can scale from one focused public area to multiple guest zones across a larger festival site.
Illustrations are indicative, not guaranteed coverage maps. Final positioning and coverage are planned for each festival based on the site layout, structures, footfall, available power and event requirements.
Make WiFi work commercially
Turn connectivity into festival revenue.
Instead of treating guest WiFi as another event cost, build a small amount into the ticket price and include connectivity for every visitor. Even a few pounds per ticket can create a meaningful new revenue stream while giving guests a service they actually value.
Example: add just £3 to 10,000 tickets and that creates £30,000 of gross ticket revenue.
Festival revenue calculatorIllustrative gross uplift
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10,000 tickets×£3.00per ticket
£30,000
Potential additional gross ticket revenue that could help fund the Festival WiFi service and create an extra commercial return for the event.
Figures are illustrative gross revenue only and do not account for VAT, ticketing fees, taxes, WiFi delivery costs or any agreed commercial/revenue-share arrangement.
How it works
Keep it simple.
A site map, dates and expected attendance are enough for us to start. We will ask the useful questions from there.
Show us the site.
We look at footfall, bars, traders, production, public areas, the systems and areas that cannot afford to lose connectivity.
We design the network.
Coverage, capacity, installation and on-site support are turned into a practical proposal built around the real event.
We stay with it.
We install, test and monitor the service, with engineers available on site to deal with the things that only happen at festivals.
Start with the basics
Tell us about your festival.
Send us the date, location, expected attendance and what needs connecting. We will come back with sensible questions and a straightforward way forward.