You’re snowed in at home and need to connect with the corporate server to finish that report. You’re working from a hotel room and want to join a videoconference on the virtual network. It should all be as easy as making a phone call.

Advances in mobile communications have redefined the boundaries of the work environment. To stay competitive, you need to give your people access to complex voice, data, Internet, messaging and multimedia applications through their wireless devices and personal computers – whether they’re moving around town, travelling across the country or working from home.

Now you can fully integrate your wireless and wireline networks with Allstream’s comprehensive mobility solutions. We help you extend business telephony and collaboration applications to any mobile device – securely and efficiently – while realizing substantial savings on wireless and long-distance costs.

Make sure your people are always reachable to customers, partners and co-workers, whether they’re across a campus, at distant offices, telecommuting or checking in from the road. Backed by Allstream’s high-performance national network, you can accelerate decision-making and response times by deploying single-number access, unified voicemail and a wide range of productivity applications for mobile devices.

Help your people work better together with virtual meeting and other collaboration solutions while saving travel and real estate costs. You also improve talent recruiting and retention by offering more flexible work arrangements. And, as an added green bonus, you shrink your organization’s carbon footprint by eliminating a lot of wasted time in airports and traffic jams.

Keep people productive no matter where they are.

A secure, scalable Allstream mobility solution lets your people:

• connect with customers, partners and colleagues from wherever they’re working
• make themselves more easily reachable, reducing telephone tag
• share information and files between their mobile devices and personal computers
• quickly find one another with presence applications and coordinate plans using instant messaging
• participate more easily in virtual meetings
• reduce commuting and travel times, freeing up more hours to focus on core tasks
• work effectively from home if a storm or other disaster makes it hard to reach the office
• communicate via economical WiFi in hard-to-reach building areas such as stairwells and basements.

Reduce your carbon footprint.
Allstream’s mobility solutions support more flexible work arrangements, reducing employees’ regular commutes and total travel miles – which translates into lower energy consumption across your organization. You can also minimize your real-estate-per-capita ratio by providing for hotelling employees and eliminating meeting spaces that are no longer needed.

Lower your mobile and long-distance charges.
Allstream’s mobility solutions reduce cellular usage and roaming charges by directing voice calls to the most cost-effective route over any network – wireless, corporate, WiFi – whether employees are in the office, at home or on the road. You can realize further savings on long-distance costs by letting mobile users take advantage of corporate landline rates.

Improve your bottom line with IP connectivity.

• Enhance service continuity, which translates into improved customer loyalty and higher sales and revenues.
• Reduce the total number of mobile devices deployed across your workforce.
• Control real estate costs by eliminating redundant meeting spaces and desks.
• Increase your ROI on existing infrastructure and applications that can now be accessed by mobile users.
• Ensure faster recovery times and fewer lost work hours during a power failure or other disaster.
• Minimize network management hassles for your IT team, who can devote their time to helping your business grow.
• Increase efficiency in all operational areas with enhanced information sharing and collaboration capabilities.