AT&T prepping to bring iPhone to corporate and business customers
- Apple iPhone goes enterprise on Jan. 21
Posted by Will on Thursday, January 17th, 2008 at 6:15 pm
The enterprise market is a huge money-maker for carriers and
manufacturers alike. Just take a look at the leading smartphone
platform in the US. The RIM-made BlackBerry platform is the push-
emailing, Outlook server compatible, enterprise-handset of choice
among the corporate-set. Sure, the iPhone has already taken the second-
highest market share in the smartphone segment, but cracking the
mainstream corporate market would drive up market like mad.
There are already many businessmen and businesswomen (or is it
businesspeople? Political correctness, bah) bugging their IT
departments to support the iPhone, and there are even enterprise
iPhone users that don't even care that their IT departments are
lagging on iPhone support. Well, it seems that AT&T is getting set to
officially give the iPhone some corporate-love.
One of BGR's tipsters have indicated that, come January 21, AT&T will
be offering the iPhone to its corporate and business customers. All
discounts associated with corporate and business accounts will still
be valid - although there may be special iPhone data plans of $25 and
higher that will be require mandatory subscription. Corporate and
business customers looking to bring the iPhone into their enterprise
environment will have to undergo a special pre-activation process
before activating the iPhone through iTunes.
Now, it's unclear whether or not the iPhone's entry into the AT&T's
official corporate stable marks Apple and AT&T's intent to bring
Microsoft Outlook Exchange support to the iPhone.
links
http://www.intomobile.com/2008/01/17...on-jan-21.html http://www.intomobile.com/wp-content...ook-server.jpg
Contrary to what the image above (from BGR) might lead you to believe,
there is no native support for MS Exchange on the iPhone. But, we sure
hope the US iPhone duo is working to bring Outlook server integration
to the iPhone - that would just make our week.
Apple iPhone Confused - Wants To Be Enterprise Phone
http://www.intomobile.com/2007/04/25...ise-phone.html
Avaya gives iPhone some enterprise prowess - Avaya one-X Mobile coming
to iPhone
http://www.intomobile.com/2007/12/19...to-iphone.html
Apple iPhone does Enterprise - will have standard OSX VPN-client and
Quick Look for Word and Excel Files
http://www.intomobile.com/2007/06/27...cel-files.html
AT&T iPhone Business Edition coming soon
http://www.intomobile.com/2007/11/19...ming-soon.html
iPhone syncs with Microsoft Exchange via Synchronica's Mobile Gateway
3.0
http://www.intomobile.com/2007/07/12...ateway-30.html