Managed WiFi 7, New for 2026
Stop paying the WiFi tax. Spend it where it counts.
Your tech budget has a fixed shape. The WiFi line item has been growing faster than property revenue. Nothing on the property has changed. The bill keeps going up anyway.
Liveport’s managed WiFi 7 offer pairs INGO Wireless access points with the Liveport Gateway, packaged as a single guaranteed service outcome, at 30 to 50% below comparable vendor pricing. Not because the hardware is cheaper. Because the structural costs that built the WiFi tax aren’t in our offer.
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The diagnosis
What the WiFi tax is made of.
Most enterprise WiFi quotes in Australia have the same three structural costs built in. None of them buy a better outcome. All of them keep growing.
Per-AP cloud subscription rent
You pay a recurring per-access-point fee for the privilege of using hardware you’ve already bought. The fee renews every three years whether you’ve used a single feature or not. The major vendors call it cloud licensing. It’s rent on equipment you own.
USD-priced hardware with stacked margin
Australian properties pay for enterprise WiFi access points in US dollars, marked up by an Australian distributor, marked up again by an Australian reseller. Three currency conversions, three margin layers, before the AP touches your ceiling.
Controller-locked architecture
The AP only works with the vendor’s controller. The controller only works on the vendor’s roadmap. After three years, the next refresh isn’t really a decision. It’s the only decision the architecture lets you make.
The stakes
What you’re not buying when you pay the tax.
The tax is a real number on every WiFi quote. For a typical 200-room property, it’s somewhere between $40,000 and $120,000 over five years that doesn’t come back. That money was going to do something else.
A proper TV refresh
The 4K hospitality-grade or PBSA-grade screens residents and guests actually rate, not the commodity panels you compromise on when the budget gets squeezed.
PoE++ switching across the building
So the network is ready for WiFi 8 before the next refresh cycle catches you flat-footed.
The visible layer guests, residents and patients actually touch
Casting, smartroom controls, in-room tablets, signage, the upgrades that move guest scores, resident retention and brand certification.
A maintenance cycle that doesn’t borrow
From another line item every quarter. Predictable cost, predictable scope, predictable outcome.
Reclaiming the tax isn’t about spending less. It’s about spending the same budget on the things your property is actually rated on.
The alternative
Removing the tax, line by line.
We rebuilt the managed WiFi offer from the bottom up so the structural costs of the major-vendor model aren’t in it.
Pillar 1, Hardware
INGO Wireless WiFi 7 access points
- ✓ Built on TIP OpenWiFi firmware
- ✓ Sold into Australian properties directly through INGO Wireless
- ✓ No per-AP cloud subscription. No controller licensing.
- ✓ Yours when you buy it, and it works the same way for the next ten years
Pillar 2, Platform
The Liveport Gateway
- ✓ PMS integration, captive portal, streaming telemetry
- ✓ Virtual resident gateways, individual PANs
- ✓ Marketing, upsells and billing, one platform
- ✓ Things major WiFi vendors can’t do, without six separate licences
Direct sourcing, AUD pricing
Hardware comes through INGO Wireless in Australia. One currency conversion, one margin layer, not three.
Managed service designed for actual workload
Not retainer billing dressed up as cloud SaaS. You pay for what we actually do for the property, not what a vendor’s pricing deck says you should pay.
This is why the offer lands at 30 to 50% below comparable vendor pricing. Not because the hardware is cheaper. Because the structural margin layers that drove the WiFi tax aren’t in the offer to begin with.
The proof
Every minute of every stay, on record.
Most WiFi providers can tell you the network is up. We can tell you it was working, in room 412, from check-in to checkout, for every guest, two weeks after they leave.
The Liveport Gateway captures per-guest WiFi experience data across the full stay. Not aggregate uptime. Per-room, per-session, per-device, with the timestamp and the connection speed at the point the guest joined.
This is the layer the WiFi tax was supposed to be paying for. It wasn’t. The major-vendor model bills you for the AP and the licence, then sells the telemetry layer back to you as a separate product, if it’s available at all.
The platform we deploy holds Marriott GPNS and Hilton certifications. The accountability the major brands require, without the major-vendor pricing model that comes bundled with it.
Removing the tax doesn’t mean removing the layers that matter. It means removing the margin layers that never bought you anything in the first place.
Where this applies
Same offer. Four very different floor plates.
Hospitality, PBSA, BTR and healthcare each have their own operational reality. The architecture is the same. The application is not.
Hospitality
From 80-room boutique up to 2,500-key resorts. PMS integrations as standard: Opera, RMS, FIAS, HTNG. Network architecture suitable for major-flag brand deployments. Hotel WiFi →
Student Accommodation (PBSA)
300 to 2,000-bed buildings. Per-bed billing, branded portals, surge capacity for move-in week. Built for the residential floor-plate load profile. PBSA WiFi →
Build-to-Rent
Institutional residential operators treating WiFi as core infrastructure. Single-vendor accountability, per-resident performance records, recurring cost suited to long-hold asset economics. BTR WiFi →
Healthcare & Aged Care
Clinical-grade segmentation, security profiles and uptime SLAs. Reference engagement: 16-hospital site survey program for St John of God. Hospital WiFi → · Aged Care →
Quantify the tax on your property.
Send us your current vendor scope, or your most recent quote for a refresh. We’ll map the WiFi tax on it line by line, against the Liveport managed WiFi 7 offer, over a five-year horizon. You’ll see the numbers on your own property, not ours.
Or call 1800 414 823 · Liveport Australia, Torquay VIC, since 2008.