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Are Carriers Plotting to Steadily Increase Your Invoice?

Unlike voice, why don’t mobile carriers offer free night/weekend data?

With data as the measure it shouldn’t surprise you carriers love smart device data-intensive apps, particularly when it’s off-peak.

Caution, your employees may be using more data during off-peak hours.

Because of streaming videos and other useful media apps, it is more than likely that your employees use more data away from work than at work.

Psst, it’s much easier to run up costs with data than with voice.

Click here to learn how this may be impacting your company.

6 Unique Mobility Challenges for Utility Companies

With large geographical service delivery challenges, an era of rapid change in grid and metering technology and the dynamic strain of coping with rapid mobility solution growth it is increasingly difficult to satisfy the constant mandate to deliver the lowest rates to users. Detailed below are some key utility-specific mobility challenges which merit increased attention and appropriate solutions.

1. Regulatory scrutiny demands heightened financial discipline emphasizing accuracy and efficiency – Oversight by Public Utility Commissions for utility rate reviews requires constant examination of existing expense processes. Because it is growing rapidly and is inherently difficult to control, mobility cost management can be one of the most challenging.

2. Large field forces bring an increased need for effective mobility oversight solutions – Field forces require efficient technology on their mobility devices to be effective in their roles away from offices. With expanding mobility usage comes rapid growth in data usage.  

3. Infrastructure and expense controls are necessary to accompany the rollout of Smart Meters & AMI – Next generation Smart Meters and AMI technology in large deployments requires optimal use of carrier machine-to-machine/telemetry plans to support these new networks. Managing telemetry invoicing requires the use of custom plans and real time proactive actions – an area where deep expertise is essential.

Click here to read about the other three challenges.

 

 

Are You Unwittingly Subsidizing Your Employee’s Weekend Diversions?

A revealing new study shows 44.99% of all data transactions occur on nights and weekends. How does this translate for companies who provide corporate provided devices? It means 55% of employee data usage occurs during employee work hours. That’s a lot of off-hours data expense.

We reviewed over 200 million data transactions from business liable employee smartphones, tablets, and data cards spanning 15 months of data collection and over 2,500 terabytes of data usage to determine how wireless data is consumed. Why does it matter? There is no such thing as free night and weekend data which means companies are spending a lot more than they should.

Imagine what you could save on your wireless invoice if you only purchased half of the data you are currently buying. Are you doing better or worse than the average?

If you’re interested to know if your company is subsidizing your employee’s weekend entertainment, click here to learn more.