These days, having the right managed services partner for your comms network counts as calculated competitive advantage. It’s a far cry from the old notion of “one throat to choke”. This unfortunate term was used extensively across the telecoms sector and in industry parlance described a single point of contact to blame when things go wrong. But as outsourcing IT and telecoms management has become a strategic imperative, it’s decidedly old school to think of your telecommunications managed services provider in this way.

To give employees an out-of-box startup experience with all passcodes and zero-trust access policies in place, there is much to do when your organisation takes possession of your new fleet of mobile devices before you can distribute them to your team.

Such is the complexity of natural human language, it took the loveable eco-friendly but rusty droid character WALL-E more than 700 years on this planet to develop intelligible human language. That’s because there’s unstructured data to contend with as well as formal rules that have too many exceptions (I’m looking at you I before E expect before C). Ripe with nuances, real-world context, and sometimes unfortunate double meanings, natural human language has been near impossible for computers to understand and mimic in a way that truly makes sense.

When you’re ready to equip your workforce with newer, more sophisticated technology, there are a number of ways to order and pay for the devices. Depending on your requirements, you can purchase mobile devices outright in one payment, opt to pay monthly over an agreed term, or choose to lease the devices. The latter allows you to switch to an operational expenditure model, removing mobile asset acquisition from your capital expenses.

As the end of the financial year draws closer, if you have unspent budget for 2022/23, it makes sense to take advantage of it while you still can. As it’s time to use it or lose it, a smart way to spend down those remaining dollars productively is to fuel next year’s activities upfront. So, consider the benefits of prepaying enterprise mobility managed services, communication technology upgrades, critical hardware, communications health checks, and security audits.