My favorite quote (so far) from the event comes from Monica Basso:

“Business is mobile.”

Pej

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Update Mar 3 – According to Phonescoop, this trial is now nationwide!

I am pleased and a bit surprised to see T-Mobile USA offer $49.99 flat rate calling to “loyal” customers (customers in good standing and with acounts active for >22 months). This is just a pilot and based on this blog post, it looks to be limited to the SF Bay Area.

This is a big step for a US mobile operator.  To my knowledge, voice ARPU for US mobile operators averaged around $40-50 dollars per month.  The existing flat rate plans (at $99) come at a significant premium over normal rate plans for the **average** user (100+%).  With this new pricing model T-Mobile makes the step to flat rate usage at ~25% increase, a far more palatable step up in pricing.

It will be interesting to see how AT&T, Verizon, and in particular Sprint will respond.  Is this the end of tiered rate plans?  If this plays out, the impact to enterprises will be significant – more mobile usage, but more importantly, more mobile users.  Enterprises can easily justify rolling out mobile devices to a greater user base at neutral to lower overall cost.

I will keep my eyes on this one – I am keen to see if this pilot rolls out nationwide.

Pej

Read the post on Cellphone Signal

Philippe Winthrop at Strategy Analytics poses an interesting question:

“So what about WiFi companies such as Aruba Networks, Bluesocket, Cisco, Extricom, HP ProCurve, and Meru?

They all talk about enterprise mobility, but are they REALLY in the enterprise mobility space?”

I agree in spirit with Philippe – that enterprise mobility is the intersection of lots of “things” – devices, applications, **AND** infrastructure (cellular, WiFi, 3G/4G). So in my opinion, WiFi infrastructure is part of enterprise mobility – but they are not an island unto themselves.

Cisco, Aruba, and Meru – to name just a few – do great things to make applications that ride on the infrastructure work well, especially around voice, such as QoS and Call Admission Control, things that make devices work better such as WMM-PowerSave (aka 802.11e U-APSD) for greatly enhanced battery life, and make the WiFi bits easier to manage (Cisco AutoRF, Aruba ARM, and Meru Air Traffic Control).

But to Philippe’s point, it is the sum of the whole that addresses the business need.

Pej

Read Philippe’s post here.