Johnny Barnes

A powerful new wireless solution that capitalizes on the speed of broadband and coverage of cellular service is giving the nation's road warriors positive proof that the battle to keep productivity up, customer satisfaction high, and costs low is on the verge of being won. Results of a three-month pilot program testing the efficiency of CDMA2000 1xEV-DO-based enterprise solutions show that sales executives equipped with laptops and wireless modems that support the new high-speed network were able to spend more hours per week with their customers than they did before, as well as more hours connected to critical corporate applications. While preliminary, these results indicate that many of the productivity and access issues that have dogged the nation's mobile workers may be resolved by leveraging the emerging CDMA2000 1xEV-DO or EV-DO networks. Trial participants pra... (more)