The Seamless Enterprise

What if hotspots became harder to find?

As this Wall Street Journal story pointed out recently, some coffee shops and  restaurants that once welcomed laptop-toting “customers” to use their hot spots are becoming less hospitable. Maybe it wasn’t a big deal earlier when these visitors lingered for hours over a cup of coffee while they worked on their computers. But the recession changed all that, and now store owners are fretting that they’re hoarding tables that could be used for the revenue-producing lunch crowd.

This makes Sprint’s announcement of a new make-your-own-hotspot solution extremely timely. (more…)

There’s a new look to Sprint Managed Network Solutions, and it’s all about addressing the challenges that convergence brings in terms of network complexity. The bottom line is that we have completely redefined what it means to provide managed network solutions to customers.  (more…)

Not surprisingly, the most-read blog for Seamless Enterprise in the first half of 2009 was focused on predicting industry trends (Seven 2009 Business Telecom Predictions). With so much change underway in the telecommunications industry, readers seem to hunger for forward thinking thought pieces. One of the top runnerups– UC, Web 2.0 and the Future–was also forward looking (rankings were based on reader traffic).

In this piece Sprint Vice-President of Corporate Strategy Russ McGuire weighed in with seven predictions of “shifts” that would affect the industry: “VOIP is dead”; B’bye desk phone; IP surges ahead…and so on. (more…)

Somebody asked me the other day what I would do if I was the “czar” of the broadband stimulus. They figured with my focus on the federal government, maybe I had some special insight into making the stimulus a success. (more…)

In his recent blog entry Five things Cassatt taught us about cloud computing, James Urquhart emphasizes a core point that I think a lot of folks still do not understand: “cloud computing is an operations model, not a technology.” Understanding Urquhart’s message would help a lot more people get above the hype to understand how cloud computing might become a greater part of their business. (more…)