Mobile solutions

Meeting the information needs of a mobile and dispersed workforce, is one of today's critical business challenges.

The intelligent application of mobile phone technology in your business can be an important factor in helping you to stay ahead of the competition.

There are huge productivity gains to be made from the convergence of fixed and mobile voice and data services, but the technology is increasingly complex and in this situation, choosing the right supplier to help you make the best decisions for your company is critical.

NTE have identified some key areas that mobile technology can help your business gain a competitive edge.

Click on the following links for more information:
- Mobile voice and data services
- Mobile push email services
- Mobile push voice services (fixed to mobile convergence)
- International and roaming
- Fixed IP remote workers
- Portable IP remote workers

For more information or advice on any of these products or services please just speak to one of our advisors or email us directly.

Mobile voice and data services
NTE Limited have their own inhouse network services division, Network One, you can view our dedicated website here.

The Network One mobile voice and data service is designed for use by SMEs in the UK and provides excellent coverage for voice and data services using 3 and Orange's UK networks. An advanced 3G network is used to provide high speed data for more than 90% of the UK population with lower speed data available outside the areas not covered by the 3G network (covering 99% of UK). With Network One mobile employees are always 100% accessible either in or out of the office.

Network One provide:
• high quality mobile voice and high-speed data
• support for a selection of the latest mobile phone handsets
• email (standard and business-class)
• handset fulfilment (optional)
• mobile billing and tariff support
• sales and customer care training
• 1st line technical support

Mobile push email
With new 3G mobile broadband speeds of upto 3.6Mbps, mobile employees now have access to seamless personal productivity and collaboration using Microsoft push e-mail services.

Push e-mail is simple to use and easy to deploy. Essential E-mail, appointments contacts, instant messages and tasks can be pushed from your office E-mail server directly to your mobile phone.

To reduce costs NTE mobiles can also access local wifi networks to retrieve e-mails when in the office, at home or in a suitable hot spot.

Mobile push voice (fixed to mobile convergence)
Like push e-mail, which keeps mobile users in touch by providing e-mail and data using 3G we can also 'push' voice communications from the company phone system direct to mobile users wherever they are located.

Make employees contactable as an extension of the corporate phone system, with access to all of the services and personal productivity that a fixed office environment has to offer.

Roaming and international mobile services
Crosslink is a service for mobile phone users that significantly reduces the costs of international phone calls by routing those calls over NTE Network One's fixed line network. The service is simple to implement and very easy to use and does not require end users to change their handsets, network provider or mobile phone contracts.

• Significantly reduced international call costs - up to 70% cheaper than calls using standard mobile operator tariffs.
• A business-class NTE Network One service
• Flexibility of using mobiles to make international calls when out of the office
• Service works across all networks and on a wide range of the latest business-class mobile phone handset models.
• Seamless operation using your existing mobile phones without cumbersome calling codes, access numbers and pin codes.

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Fixed IP remote workers
IP telephony or VoIP (voice over IP) communication has quickly moved from the emerging technology sector to become a core business technology.

Businesses of all sizes can easily enjoy the benefits of IP remote working through a low-cost, "plug and work" solution that extends the corporate network and phone system to virtually any location.

With the Nortel range of systems IP remote working is easily implemented using a range of standard Nortel IP phones and or softphones and either the BCM or CS1000 communications system.

Nortel communication systems enable your business to take a migratory approach to IP, with cost-effective solutions that maximise your existing investments but allowing your business to migrate to IP telephony when and where it is needed. Our approach ensures that your business investment is protected long into the future.

IP remote working provides:
- Flexibility and familiarity through using a standard telephone.
- Transparent access to corporate voice and data services.
- High levels of security and accountability.
- Seamless integration with Microsoft® Windows clients for access to the corporate data and voice network.
- Scalability with support for large numbers of remote workers.
- Plug-and-work simplicity.
- Tele-workers or agents can be monitored using call management software.

Businesses can now benefit from reduced overheads and increased employee retention, while enabling users to adopt more flexible and productive work patterns.

Portable IP remote workers - Featureplus
Featureplus is a hosted telephony solution designed for small and home offices but is equally useful for large corporates with geographically diverse or mobile workers.

Feature Plus works across any standard broadband connection and provides an Internet based phone with a fixed landline number that is both portable and unrestricted by geographic location. Simply take your phone and its unique number with you - wherever you go.

With Feature Plus an employee working between Scotland and London can maintain a London 0203 number regardless of location. No configuration or setup is required, just plug your phone into any broadband connection and it will connect with your number.

Featureplus also provides complete online control of your telephone service and features such as call forwarding, call transfer and voicemail to email, you can be sure that you will never lose a call, whatever you are doing, wherever you are.

Calls are routed over a broadband connection to Network One, so you will benefit from our lower calling costs. Couple this with FREE site-to-site calls and reduced line rentals and you will see a significant reduction of your telephone bills and yet experience improved functionality with your telephone service.

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