When companies face pressure to reduce costs as margins get squeezed, one of the areas that often faces scrutiny is mobile phone service. Mobile operators are notorious for making billing and service plans complicated and continuing to charge premium rates when lower cost alternatives are available. Some companies even consider eliminating mobile service altogether due …
Bring-your-own-device (BYOD) has undergone a remarkable transformation in the last 10 years. Up until 2004, when you changed jobs, you needed to change your mobile number and device since the company owned both. With the advent of mobile number portability freeing your phone number, untethering the device was the logical next step. BYOD policy adoption …
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Roaming has long been one of the largest profit centers for mobile operators. While they are being charged by other networks when the customers roam, operators tend to charge massive markups on those wholesale rates due to limited competition in this segment. Since the EU regulated roaming rates in 2008, the roaming wholesale average has …
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Separate data plans for iPads are one of the biggest rip offs in telecom. Very few people use the mobile cellular feature at all, yet pay $20-40/month for the feature. Any cellular-enabled iPad has an eSIM that offers on-demand data plans from major operators and smaller providers. You can purchase a plan directly through the …
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TL;DR Mobile services (workforce mobility) are essential to do business; business mobile services spend represents around 7.6% of business IT spend globally. Cost management is fundamental to profitability and is seeing an increased focus with businesses prioritising IT initiatives towards cost savings from 9% in 2020 to 27% in 2021. Workforce mobility analysis has shown …
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Mobile phones with two SIM cards – known as dual-SIM devices – have long been available in many countries, but didn’t officially appear in the US until 2018 with the launch of the Apple iPhone XS. Now, if you were a real mobile junkie (like me) you could have purchased an international version of Android …
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When looking at a corporate cell phone policy, decision makers can often find service plans that meet their needs, but struggle with the cost of adding devices. With the recent spike in mobile phone costs to well over $1000 for the latest models and with operator subsidies a thing of the past, SMB companies can …
What are MVNOs and how are they different from the carriers? MVNO stands for Mobile Virtual Network Operator. MVNOs are networks that offer connectivity from a larger operator and do not operate a cellular network themselves. Essentially, they are marketing and billing companies that are associated with one or more operators. Well known MVNOs in …
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