TELECOMS & SUSTAINABILITY
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VR and XR to the rescue To compensate for more disparate , remote-enabled workplaces , enterprises are looking more and more to technology like mixed and virtual reality to help bring people closer together , no matter how far apart they are . couldn ' t drive their cars to the office , they couldn ' t work for the company . More recently , with more and more people driving electric cars , more and more companies are installing charging stations to let their employees charge those vehicles . Companies realised that , if they want to attract the employees they need to be successful , they need to do things like that to support the relationship ,” Erlandsson continues . “ I think we ' ll see the same realisation regarding connectivity in the future . It ' ll be a matter of competition between leading enterprises , which will light a fire under the rest of the industry .”
So far , however , he notes that the demand from the enterprise side , and the subsequent supply from the service provider side , just haven ’ t materialised . “ We ' ve looked at a lot of markets and seen very few operators offering this kind of service . There are several in the fixed wireless access business , but these offerings are almost universally targeted towards the end-user , not the enterprise ,” he adds .
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Going green all the way Just under 75 % of enterprises expect to be using mostly renewable electricity by 2030 which , combined with the shift towards the centralised public cloud , will also result in some pivotal energy savings .
T-Mobile . A Blueprint for Dematerialisation ? Within three minutes of my call with Anders being over , I opened my RSS feed to find that US MNO T-Mobile had launched the exact thing we ’ d been talking about , more or less at the exact time we were talking about it .
In early March , the company made a big – slightly combative – announcement about a new revenue stream it intended to pursue : three new products aimed at enterprises looking to support their remote workforces : T-Mobile Enterprise Unlimited , a wireless plans with unlimited 5G on T-Mobile ’ s network for the same price as its competitors ’ shared , pooled rate plans ; T-Mobile Home Office Internet , a home broadband package designed to give remote employees the bandwidth and security needed to work
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