2014 Telecom Expense Management

Trends That Will Affect Your Business

1.BYOD ExpansionBoom or Bust?

Can BYOD cause security and legal issues?

Does BYOD save money?

69% report that costs are either

rising or are about the same

BYOD Expansion FactsIn 2013, TEMIA reported that:

Most alarming? 25% of firms can’t tell if it helped with costs or

not!

48% of businesses have adopted BYOD and another 20% are evaluating it

2. Mobile Device Privacy

Privacy Concerns

Legal and privacy issues around corporate/personal

mobile device usage are appearing

3. Carrier Wars

Resorting to stealing customers

from each other

Which will influence business

telecom

Saturation in the market means

shrinking margins

Which means more aggressive

tactics

4. Wave of Wearables

Wearable Device Concerns

• What policies need to be in place to manage the network access of these devices?

• A rise in security issues

• More devices connected = higher bandwidth costs

5. Bring on the Phablets

/phab·let/ [fab-lit]

Noun

“A mobile device that combines the features of a smartphone and a tablet computer and is larger than a typical smartphone but not as large as a typical small tablet.”

Phablet Facts

Barclays projects sales rising from 27 million in 2012 to 230 million in 2015

More Devices = More Risk and higher support costs

6. Smart Machines and the Internet of Everything

• More and more is on the internet every day. • AKA: The Internet of EVERYTHING

• How do these expansions impact costs?

• Do they belong in inventory?

• Security issues?

• Machine-to-machine traffic growth

Keep Your Head Above WaterBe proactive!

A Telecom Expense Management Program helps minimize risk and reduce

the costs associated with new tech trends.

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