Backup internet, built for multi-location businesses.
Waveform Internet runs the same managed, bonded connection at every address. Multiple connections, one account, one bill, and a team watching all of it around the clock.
"With Waveform, it actually works. My primary ISP can drop completely, and my connection stays alive without me even noticing."
Bob R. Verified buyer
30-day free returns · No contracts · Preconfigured per location
You've watched one tile go red.
A location goes dark, and the questions start in order. Which provider is that one, who has the login, is anyone actually on it. Multiply one site's occasional outage by every address you run and it stops being occasional, and every hour a location is offline is sales that store doesn't ring up and an ops team doing a provider's job for them.
The opening week.
The fixtures are in and the doors open Tuesday, but the internet install is quoted for a week from Friday, and the grand opening sits between them. It happens again at every new location.
The nine-ISP problem.
Cable at six locations, DSL at two, fiber at one. That means nine account numbers, nine support queues, and nine renewal dates, and none of it visible from one screen.
The tracking issue.
A location goes dark and the questions start in order. Which provider is that one? Who has the login? Is anyone actually on it? An hour of ops time later, the answer turns out to be a modem reboot.
The law of averages.
One location sees an outage a year and calls it rare. Forty locations run forty of those years at once, which means somewhere in the estate is down most months.
What's actually breaking
Usually, it's not the POS, or the local manager, or the provider of the month. It's the one connection underneath everything, at every single address.
Today: one connection, one failure point
Every address runs on whatever the local market offered. Cable here, DSL there, a different account everywhere. None of it is visible from HQ, each connection fails on its own schedule, and every failure lands on the same ops team.
With Waveform: multiple networks already working
Waveform adds a 5G connection on a different network and keeps it active alongside your existing ISP. Critical traffic, like card payments, POS, and phones, can ride both connections at the same time. If one path fails, the other is already carrying traffic.
What Waveform Internet customers say
"We went from $780/month with mediocre performance and a ton of overhead, to $125/month with better performance and basically zero overhead. Someone on their team is actually watching our connection and reaches out before I even notice something's off. This stuff used to require an IT department or an expensive consultant."
Verified buyer · April 2026
"We switched to Waveform from T-Mobile and have had a very positive experience. Our speeds and reliability have improved significantly. … Most importantly, their customer service is top-notch. No chatbots, just real people."
Verified buyer · March 2026
Rated 5.0 by verified Waveform Internet customers. From the team behind Waveform, with 100,000+ systems deployed across all 50 states.
Built for the way a fleet actually works.
Waveform Internet runs your existing ISP and a 5G connection at the same time. You get a second path to the internet, active before you need it.
Multiple active networks
Your wired ISP and cellular connection have different failure modes. If one drops, slows down, or gets congested, that location still has a live path out.
Selective bonding for critical traffic
Payments, POS, phones, and other sensitive traffic can use both connections at once for smoother failover. Less critical traffic uses whichever connection is performing best.
Managed by people who know the system
We configure the hardware, supply the SIM, monitor the connection, and handle support. One service, one bill, one team to call.
How bonding and automatic failover work
Your existing ISP carries most everyday traffic. Multiple 5G connections on separate cellular networks run alongside it, active all the time. Payment and POS traffic goes through an encrypted bonded tunnel, using every available connection at once and exiting through one persistent public IP. Everyday traffic, like guest Wi-Fi, signage, and browsing, uses the best available single connection.
Built for your locations, starting at
$140/month
On Smart tier backup configuration with Selective Bonding. Includes hardware, SIM, 5G data, monitoring, and support. No setup fee.
Setup in 5 minutes. No professional installation.
Most internet redundancy turns into a project.
The usual options are a service visit, booked weeks out and repeated at every location, or a DIY build with hardware, SIMs, failover rules, testing, and ongoing maintenance. Across a fleet, the install is only the first problem.
Waveform Internet doesn't.
Every unit ships preconfigured for the location it's going to. The SIM is installed, the hardware is tested, and the location is already in our monitoring system. Attach the antennas, connect your existing internet line, plug in power, and it comes online.
Delivered
3 to 5 days · Preconfigured per location
Plug in
Under 5 minutes · No IT needed
Online
Immediately · Multiple networks active
Monitored
24/7 · We usually see issues first
We monitor everything 24/7
Every connection is monitored 24/7 so unexpected outages get caught early. When latency rises, packet loss appears, or cellular signal degrades, our team sees it and fixes it. And if you do need to talk to us, you'll connect directly to the engineers monitoring and fixing it.
Acknowledged in
8 min avg
15 min max
Most issues resolved in
15-20 min avg
30 min max
After-hours resolution
~1 hr avg
1.5 hr max
Not sure where to start?
Talk to the people who built Waveform Internet. Tell us a little about your business and we'll look at your locations, your current setup, and what actually needs protecting, then tell you what we'd recommend.
Thanks, we've got it. One of the team will get back to you about your setup. If you'd rather not wait, check availability at your address in the meantime.
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Common questions from multi-location operators
If your question isn't here, ask us directly.
Will this work with the mix of systems our locations already run?
Yes. We sit a layer below all of it, at the network level, so there's nothing to integrate and nothing to break. POS, phones, cameras, back-office tools, whatever each location happens to run: if it works on ordinary internet, it works on ours, and the stack doesn't have to match from one address to the next. What changes is priority, so payments and phones get served ahead of guest Wi-Fi everywhere.
Our locations are on different ISPs. Does that matter?
Not to us, and that's rather the point. Each unit sits in front of whatever internet the location already has, cable, DSL, fiber, and adds cellular alongside it. You keep the local contracts you have, or drop the worst of them over time; either way the resilience layer is identical at every address.
What you get back is uniformity: one config standard, one monitoring view on our side, one team to call. The local ISP stops being the thing that makes each location a special case.
What happens during an internet outage?
At the location, ideally nothing. Traffic moves to the surviving connection on its own, and anything bonded, payments, POS, and phones included, was already traveling both paths when the failure hit. The alert lands with our team, not in your ops queue, so the first your people hear of it is usually an email saying it's already handled.
How fast is it?
Plenty for a busy location. POS, phones, cameras, signage, and guest Wi-Fi together are a light load by internet standards, and most of it runs at the native speed of the location's healthiest connection.
The bonded path is the one exception: it trades top speed for resilience and tops out around 200 Mbps. That ceiling is the hardware doing the encryption, not a cap we've set, and it applies only to traffic in the bonded lane. A card transaction weighs a few kilobytes, so payments will never come close to it.
How do rollouts work across dozens of locations?
Send us the address list and we work through it in waves: every unit configured for its specific location before it ships, boxes moving to as many sites in parallel as your logistics allow, and each site online in the few minutes it takes someone local to plug it in. One account, one point of contact, centralized billing throughout.
Monitoring runs 24/7. Our team is staffed from 6am Eastern to 9pm Pacific, which covers open hours in every time zone your locations are in.
There's deliberately no customer dashboard. Monitoring is part of what you're paying us to do, so we do it, and we get in touch when something needs action.
What hardware do you ship me?
A Core Router configured for your specific location, with 5G built in and the SIM already seated. Where a design calls for extra cellular capacity or another network, we add an Add-On Modem. All of it is commercial-grade Peplink equipment meant to run around the clock. If a building needs unusual mounting or antennas, we work that out with you before anything ships.
How long until we're online after we order?
About a week, and most of that is shipping. We spend a day or two on configuration before the unit goes to the courier for 3 to 5 days, and the install at your end is measured in minutes. Groups can bring locations online in parallel; the pace is usually set by each location's logistics rather than by anything on our side.
If an address looks like it will need an antenna survey or custom mounting, we say so before you order, not after.
Do you support PCI compliance?
The certification stays yours to hold, as it does with any internet provider; nothing about us changes your merchant obligations. Where we help is the networking underneath. Payment traffic can live on its own VLAN, away from guest Wi-Fi, and the Core Router supports the configurations most PCI-DSS checklists ask about. Bring us your audit requirements and we'll go through them line by line.
What happens when a location moves or closes?
The unit moves with you. Service is month to month per location, and there's no penalty for closing a site. Tell us the new address and we'll re-check coverage, reconfigure remotely, and update the monitoring before the fixtures arrive.
If the next site isn't open yet, hardware you bought outright can sit on the shelf until it is, and rented units come back to us and go out again when you're ready, so you're not paying through a gap. Fleets churn, and the billing should follow the estate rather than fight it. Locations can be added, paused, or dropped without renegotiating anything.
What's the difference between failover and bonding?
Failover is sequential. One connection dies, another takes over, and there's a gap while that happens, which is how most backup products behave.
Bonding removes the gap by running connections simultaneously. We bond selectively, reserving it for traffic where an interruption costs money, like payments, POS, and calls, and let everything else fail over intelligently instead.
Do I need a technical person to set this up?
No. Configuration happens here before we ship, and the physical install is antennas, two cables, and a wall outlet. Anything that needs adjusting later, we adjust remotely. Nobody on your staff has to become the network person.
How does this compare to T-Mobile Business Internet Backup?
It's a reasonable product for what it is: one 5G connection that steps in after your ISP fails, at a lower price than ours. If a brief gap during the switch is tolerable and nobody needs to be watching it for you, it may well be enough for a single site.
We're built for fleets, where the gap is someone's job to notice. Multiple connections running at once, bonding on the critical traffic, hardware and SIM included, monitoring around the clock and a team on the other end of it. The extra cost buys the difference between a spare tire and a second engine already running.
How does this compare to SD-WAN services like Bigleaf?
SD-WAN platforms mostly assume ingredients you already own: a second connection installed, compatible hardware, and someone comfortable writing and maintaining failover policy. We show up with all of it in the box: connection, plan, router, configuration, monitoring, support.
If you have an IT team that wants to run the stack, SD-WAN done well is a fine route. If you'd rather buy the outcome than assemble the parts, that's what we're for.
Can I use this as my primary internet?
Yes, there are primary tiers built on cellular. Most locations shouldn't start there, though: if a workable wired line already exists, keeping it and adding an active cellular path gives you two kinds of infrastructure instead of one, which is the whole idea. Primary earns its place where wired options are bad, late, or missing entirely, like rural sites and new builds still waiting on fiber.
Does this work in rural areas without fiber?
Often better than in a city, since rural wired service is exactly where reliability runs thinnest. We test cellular coverage against your street address before anything ships and tell you plainly what to expect. If the signal looks borderline, an external antenna can go in the kit.
Does this work with Starlink?
Yes, happily. A dish can be one of the connections we manage, and for your most remote locations it's often the right architecture. Satellite and cellular fail independently, where two wired providers often hang from the same pole down the road.
How much data does it use? Are there overage fees?
No overage fees, ever, and everyday traffic carries no cap at all. The bonded path is the only thing we meter: 250 GB a month on Smart. Because only payments, POS, and calls travel bonded, locations rarely get near it.
If you do go over, we'll usually just cover it. If it becomes a monthly habit, we'll come to you about a bigger allowance rather than let it turn up on a bill.
What if it doesn't work at one of our locations?
Send everything back inside the first 30 days for a full refund, hardware included, with no restocking fee and no one making it awkward. It doesn't happen often, because coverage gets checked at the address before we ship, but the exit stays open.
Is there a contract?
No. The service is month to month; leave whenever you like. Hardware works one of two ways: buy it upfront and it's yours from day one, or rent it monthly for as long as you're a customer and send it back when you stop. And the first 30 days work like a trial: if it's not the right fit, everything goes back for a full refund.
Can I keep my existing router or networking gear?
Usually, yes. We slot in upstream of your current router and take over the multi-WAN decisions, and everything behind it keeps working exactly as it does today. Locations with more moving parts, like VLANs, VoIP phones, or gear pinned to fixed addresses, get a design review with us before anything ships.
Backup internet that keeps every location online.
30-day free returns. No contract. Real human support to keep your business online.
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