Mobility Management - how are the global Carriers doing?
Posted by John Bruce on Wed, Sep 08, 2010
Mobility Management - how are the global Carriers doing?
The leading Telecom Expense Management vendors have for some time been adding functionality to handle the massive growth in mobile technologies. At first it was mobile phones, now it's the complete spread of smart phones, PDAs and laptops. We're actually also looking at adding cloud based service management.
For most of us this has meant the development or acquisition of additional technologies and services. We always believed the most efficient way to do this was to build onto the platform we have, creating a unified way to manage all your telecomm assets. Others have bolted on pieces as they could buy them. Either way, the leading offerings now allow a user to handle their fixed and mobile needs from one vendor.
The most progressive global carriers have seen the rise in demand from their clients and are positioning themselves to deliver. Kitty Weldon from Current Analysis recently published a report that was well worth a read. After extensive research, she describes the relative strengths of the six carriers best positioned to offer managed mobility services. Vodafone, Verizon, AT&T, BT, Orange and Telefonica. And she rates Vodafone and Verizon ahead of the others.
Unfortunately, one significant common denominator that didn't make Kitty's report, is that the two leading carriers, Vodafone and Verizon, both independently chose to build their solutions on the platform of one TEM vendor -- Quickcomm.
Vodafone are making the full report available, just click on this link to get a copy.