Tom AustinOne of the RSS feeds I subscribe to, Nyquist Capital (dslreports.com) carried an item from Nielson which reports Neilson’s latest data on consumers who have ditched their landlines and gone totally mobile. There’s a lot of discussion on that blog about what it all means but it provoked, in my mind, a different sort of question.
I talk with clients often about designing their “office of the future” and wireless “everything” comes up in the discussion. I can’t imagine wireless “everything”, at least not in the next few years; wireless power is still in the research phase. But what percentage of your employees will go “wireless” for on-premises telephony? It was only a few years ago that I had clients tell me it was nuts to put in wifi for data everywhere — but resistance to that trend seems to have evaporated. What about wireless voice?
What proportion of your employee population does not have a landline phone and how far do you see that trend extending over the next few years?
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1 Nick Jones September 25, 2008 at 9:06 am
Although this can work for individuals @ home I’m a bit sceptical about it for corporates at this time. A lot of customers I talk to tend to think it’s a bit early to throw out desk phones and use cellular / wiFi combo devices for everything at the moment. The technology is a bit immature with WiFi and in building cellphone coverage can be rather feeble in the USA (as a European I’m smirking as I type that). So we tend to think most organisations will buy one more generation of dumb IP desk phone before the big change over starts.
2 Tom Austin September 25, 2008 at 9:19 am
Don’t smirk too much about in–building cell phone coverage in the US. There are many places (like downtown London) where coverage has just as many blank spots… which makes your point regarding in-building cell phone coverage no matter where you are…
3 Nick Jones September 25, 2008 at 9:21 am
But at least I can roam anywhere in Europe!