Bring Your Own Network press release
Tuesday, November 27th, 2012 Karen Ambrose Hickey, Editor
Although we already introduced Bring-Your-Own-Network on the blog, today’s press release is a reminder to look at these ideas for reducing overall mobility costs for your organization.
From the release:
While many enterprises are rapidly embracing a more mobile workforce and supporting a BYOD strategy, a big unresolved problem for many is the cost of wireless network access. While devices are relatively cheap the wireless networks they run on are expensive. BYOD is all about allowing employees to choose and use their own mobile devices so they can access data and applications whenever they want and wherever they are, and BYON is about enterprises having policies in place to right-size the wireless access costs for employee tasks. Without a clear plan for purchase of wireless access, employees may make costly decisions (all in the name of “getting things done”), pushing connection costs into a budgetary black hole. Essentially, no BYOD plan is complete without a BYON companion.
I also provided some commentary surrounding issues with this strategy, with Eric Lai, ZDNet, and Chris Witek, iPass, providing input.
Tags: cost management, mobile employee, mobile workforce, smartphone
