Sprint Offers Office PBX Integration with Mobile Phones

The USA based, Sprint has launched product which extends customers' premises-based PBX features and functionality to their mobile phones. Sprint Wireless Integration features include providing users with one phone number that simultaneously rings both the desk phone and mobile phone, along with one converged enterprise voicemail inbox.

It also extends PBX features like conferencing and call forwarding to the mobile phone so users can get all the functionality of their desk phone even while away from the office. For example, mobile users can make intra-company calls by simply dialing the four-digit extension of the person they want to reach, just as they would from the office desk phone - with no access numbers to dial or codes to enter first.

Built within Sprint's IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) architecture, Sprint Wireless Integration is the industry's first "hosted mobility" solution. "By converging wireline and wireless functionality, Sprint Wireless Integration provides a better overall service - one that is more functional and also makes communication more simple and effective," said Tony Krueck, vice president of product management and development, Sprint. "This solution is a great example of the promise of Fixed/Mobile Convergence."

Sprint Wireless Integration is currently available to businesses with Avaya Communication Manager enterprise telephony PBX. Sprint will be announcing support for similar solutions with other major PBX providers in early 2007."

Posted to the site on 18th December 2006