{"id":3527,"date":"2026-09-21T07:39:04","date_gmt":"2026-09-21T07:39:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vega.co.ke\/blog\/?p=3527"},"modified":"2026-09-21T07:39:05","modified_gmt":"2026-09-21T07:39:05","slug":"data-bundles-vs-wi-fi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vega.co.ke\/blog\/data-bundles-vs-wi-fi\/","title":{"rendered":"Data Bundles vs Wi-Fi: What Your POS Really Needs"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Data bundles vs Wi-Fi<\/a><\/strong> is a question that sounds like an internet-forum debate and is actually a business decision worth real money every month.<\/p>\n

Achieng runs a boutique in Kisumu, and she has lived both answers.<\/p>\n

When a fibre cut silenced her shop’s Wi-Fi for two days last year, her cloud till froze with it \u2014 she switched fully to data bundles the following week.<\/p>\n

Three months later she was buying 4,000 shillings of bundles a month and still watching her till stall on congested evenings, because a point-of-sale system that streams everything will eat data and still stutter.<\/p>\n

Across the road, her friend Kamau kept his Wi-Fi, added a dual-SIM router and a till that trades offline, and spent less than half of what she did on connectivity.<\/p>\n

Neither of them needed faster internet.<\/p>\n

They needed to understand what a POS actually demands from a connection \u2014 which is almost the opposite of what most owners assume.<\/p>\n

This article settles the data bundles vs Wi-Fi<\/a> question the way it deserves: by what the till really needs, what each option honestly costs, and how the two can work together instead of competing.<\/p>\n

By the end, you will know exactly how to connect your counter \u2014 and why the best answer usually uses both.<\/p>\n

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