With Sprint SIP Trunking now available to a far broader range of enterprises, it’s important to understand its role as an initial step toward Mobile Integration and unified communications. More...

Q&A with Sprint’s Dan Jacobson

At the recent Interop conference in Las Vegas, Sprint demonstrated its Mobile Integration products, garnering a lot of attention. We caught up with Dan Jacobson, senior portfolio manager of Sprint’s Converged Voice Services, right after the show and reviewed some of the key issues with him, starting with a definition. More...

Interop (May 19-21) is just around the corner. I can remember when it was held in places such as Atlanta and San Francisco before Las Vegas and New York (the East Coast version) became its permanent homes. Maybe that wasn’t so long ago, but it sure seems like it. More...

A recent article in UC Magazine by Richard “Zippy” Grigonis caught my attention. Despite the magazine’s usual B2B focus, most of the article addressed the consumer benefits of femtocells. Which is fine, except the emphasis on coverage – particularly when it comes to the enterprise – sells femtocells short. The technology is far more encompassing than that. More...

The spring telecom trade show season is officially under way again with VoiceCon March 30- April 2 in Orlando and CTIA in Las Vegas April 1-3. While CTIA has morphed into a wireless applications show, primarily geared toward consumer devices and usage, VoiceCon is becoming a driving force behind UC applications and the enterprise. More...

As good as the wireless infrastructure is in this country, we all know that you can’t always get perfect coverage everywhere. That’s a concern for remote office or home-based workers, particularly as the companies they work for move to wireless-wireline integration and eventually come to standardize on mobile phones. More...

Last month, I wrote that “the days of two-phone living may just be numbered” in a post focusing on how the mobile phone is clearly becoming the dominant device in corporate America. Now Gartner is pinning down that number, with a prediction that by 2011, North American enterprises will be supporting more mobile phones than desktop phones. More...

Most of us have gotten so used to coping with two phones that we don’t give much thought to what work life would be without that juggling act. You know how it goes: Check both voice mails several times a day, take the call on your mobile phone even though you’re sitting right there by your deskphone, make sure your business card always shows both your office and mobile numbers, etc. More...

Is solar energy free? Well, if you don’t count the $30,000 or more for the rooftop panels, along with batteries to store the power, a meter to allow selling power back to the utility, and other sundry equipment, I suppose it is. But of course, you do have to factor those things when you analyze the “real” cost of your electricity. More...

One persistent misconception about enterprise fixed-mobile convergence is that if the wireless operator is part of the solution, it is going to mean more minutes of use and higher costs. I ran into this “myth” many times at the recent VoiceCon conference, where I had the opportunity both to speak to an audience and to talk one-on-one with attendees. More...