5G is Just Around the Corner—Get Ready!

5G is right around the corner. High-definition (HD) mobile video is here. HD video services from Hulu and Netflix, etc. used to create a high risk for budget-busting.

Today, though, savvy CIOs and forward-thinking Technology Expense Management firms are actively planning for live mobile video as the latest challenge to be managed. For those of you following what your most favorite social media outlets are introducing as new services you would have seen already that Facebook, Snapchat, and Twitter all released live-streaming capabilities recently.

We are having planning sessions with our customers to prepare and determine whether their mobile service plans and budgets are ready for 5G availability. The assessment stages does a deep dive around corporate/individual/BYOD/COPE plans, analyzing whether or not they are prepared for, or what they need to do to be ready for an explosion of streaming video, a technology which will increase dramatically their mobile data usage. We are providing critical reporting and management to address these challenges. Our effective program can also allocate pooled plan charges based on actual data consumption vs. a fixed fee for all employees in the pool. Alerts are sent to employees and their managers to proactively avoid an ongoing pattern of excessive use with a policy update.

Our Wireless Managers are helping telecom managers proactively monitor mobile data usage and start discussions to determine if the benefits from live mobile video is worth the increase in data usage. Our reporting can help companies determine when they have reached alert usage thresholds and where it is necessary to negotiate new plans with carriers for larger allotments of mobile data. This will be the best way to ensure that live mobile video does not crush your budgets.