According to Forrester (Forrsights: Mobility Dominates EnterpriseTelecom Trends In 2011, July 22, 2011), 60 percent of companies now allow their employees to use personal smartphones and tablets at work and this trend is increasing.
And the underappreciated jewel is BCE, which not only has the most sustainable dividends but also is the least leveraged (41% debt-to-enterprise) of all five of these telecom outfits.
On Wednesday the telecom giant announced a new encryption option for its enterprise smartphone users, allowing them to insert a chip from its partner company KoolSpan into a phone and encrypt the voice traffic to prevent wiretaps.
Eircom formed a wholly owned subsidiary called Service Enterprise Holdings, which took a 35% equity stake in one partner, Telecom Engineering Services, and a 30% equity stake in a new unit of Modern Networks, the other.