Fight for the forest, Agito!

Agito Networks today began rolling out their Agito for BlackBerry product, first announced back in June, aimed at delivering VoIP over Wi-Fi to enterprise BlackBerry platforms, according to a company press release. Now, VOIP for the Blackberry and other smartphones is nothing new, of course. There are a number of providers who offer the service individually to users, not the least of which is Skype (with both Blackberry and iPhone apps).

What Agito offers is the service as an offering to enterprises who can equip their whole Blackberry fleet with it. Unsurprisingly, the company focuses on the ease of a single number and integrated cell service in its announcement:

Agito for BlackBerry is a complete enterprise mobility solution using standard BlackBerry APIs to deliver more capabilities for BlackBerry smartphone users than competing solutions, which require additional costly servers and expensive and time consuming PBX upgrades. Agito Networks’ RoamAnywhere solution combines mid-call features for BlackBerry smartphones – such as hold, conferencing, transfer; a single enterprise number and voicemail; directory query; and call retrieve – with automatic handover over both Wi-Fi and cellular networks. Agito Networks also delivers full-featured cost savings for BlackBerry users – such as international direct dialing and roaming, least-cost routing, and dynamic calling rules.

This kind of infrastructure is important to the Hotspotter because the more big business invests in mobile technology. Having spent the money on a fancy mobility infrastructure, it would be almost criminal for these companies to not utilize those investments by adopting a robust mobile worker strategy. Or so the good folks at The Hotspotter will argue, along with a legion of other mobile worker advocates.

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