Mobile communications services and the mobile phone are now the pervasive, dominant communications tools for consumers and business users alike.
And innovations such as Non-Fungible Tokens (NFT) and Private LTE in combination with the new generation of Fixed-Mobile Convergence (FMC) promise to create even more compelling use cases for mobile communications.
What will that future look like?
On 17 June 1946, a driver in St. Louis pulled out a handset from under his car’s dashboard, placed a phone call and made history. It was the first mobile telephone call, placed on a system inaugurated by Southwestern Bell, one of AT&T’s local operating companies.
The service was only available in major cities and highway corridors and was aimed at the business user, including utility companies...
For some companies, it was a revelation about a new way to work. For others, it was validation of a growing trend.
The sudden cutover to “Work-From-Home” for many employees last year caused a broad rethink about where and when work can take place.
And now that businesses are opening back up, the hybrid workstyle, with part of the time in the office and part of the time at home or elsewhere, is...
The promise of Fixed-Mobile Convergence (FMC) was realized only partially at best in the last generation of mobile technologies. But now the new generation of FMC based on native mobile services is radically transforming how business users communicate and even where and how work is conducted.
To explore how this communications revolution came about, it’s helpful to look at the roots of mobile...
Mobile workers using simple self-destructing messaging functions in popular apps could ignite major legal repercussions for businesses with required regulatory recording and archiving.
But as the remote working trend continues to rise – as well as now universal use of mobile phones for business communications – smart companies are enforcing compliance policies by ensuring communications on...
Mobile Devices may be the most important tool a company has to create seamless distributed workforce communications that can not only cut communications costs but also dramatically boost productivity.
Consider the example of a leading U.S. food manufacturer. This company, with three rapidly growing main locations, is the subject of a new case study about the power of going “Mobile First” with ...
Hybrid work models are here to stay.
You don’t need to study workplace trends to see one lasting aftermath of the pandemic is that employers will likely permit employees to adopt ”hybrid” work - performing their jobs part of the time from home and part from an office or other location.
In a report published today by the Demos Group - The Nowhere Office, Julia Hobsbawn says:
There will no longer...
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Join us at the Cisco WebexOne virtual conference this week to learn more about Mobile-X, the award-winning mobile service that turns any mobile phone into an extension of a corporate communications platform.
A report released last month shows that the impact of pandemic response measures on business is even more profound than many of us anticipated.
In fact, the work-from-home trend is now poised to reshape our cities entirely, as millions of young workers plan to move away from the very expensive living conditions in today’s major urban centers.
That’s the finding of a report announced by Upwork,...
Like so many of us today, CIO John is wrestling with the new normal of working. In our new Mobile-X explainer video, John wants to ensure his staff working from home can do so with business quality communications.
He's dealing with the pandemic-driven telework trend that shows no sign of fading.
October 11, 2021