* AT&T has acquired certain assets from inCompass Wireless, while NTT will extend its VoIP offering to 159 countries
Two announcements this week: AT&T has added to its expertise in enterprise mobility with an acquisition while NTT has disclosed plans to extend its VoIP offering to 159 countries.
Two announcements this week: AT&T has added to its expertise in enterprise mobility with an acquisition while NTT has disclosed plans to extend its VoIP offering to 159 countries.
AT&T has acquired certain assets and hired some employees from inCompass Wireless (formerly inCode Telecom’s Enterprise Mobility Solutions Group) in a move to expand its enterprise mobility solutions and professional services expertise. InCompass Wireless focuses on mobile application and wireless solution development with back office systems — including mobile deployment and mobile managed services, and wireless technology integration and implementation. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.
The inCompass team’s expertise includes solutions such as fleet management, field force automation, sales force automation, supply chain and wireless infrastructure, according to AT&T’s statement. Commenting on the transaction, Michael Antieri, President, Advanced Enterprise Mobility Solutions, AT&T Business Solutions, said the acquisition is designed to strengthen AT&T’s “foundation to enable business model transformation through mobile applications, machine-to-machine solutions and mobile services . . . which will allow [AT&T] to meet a broader set of customer needs across the mobile ecosystem.”
The newly acquired expertise will add to AT&T’s Advanced Enterprise Mobility Solutions, a team formed in May 2010 to accelerate the delivery of advanced mobile applications and solutions for businesses, governments and organizations of all sizes.
In other news, NTT Com announced that it plans to become Japan’s first telecom carrier to offer multinational customers a VoIP service for on-net dialing between global offices, including Japan, beginning Dec. 1. Plans for other new IP communications services planned for deployment beginning in April 2011 were also announced, including a portfolio of unified communications, off-net VoIP calls and cloud-based global call centers. The new global VoIP service will be offered through NTT Com’s managed network service for enterprise customers, called Arcstar Global IP-VPN. It can be combined with existing private branch exchanges (PBXs) and use NTT Com’s VoIP gateway service in Japan. Startup costs per office begin at about $135 per office, and recurring per-line charges will be about $49 monthly, payable in local currencies.
