With ‘Workplace-as-a-Service’ Bundle, Sprint Aims to Show It Means Business

With a new effort being detailed, Sprint aims to show it has renewed interest in serving businesses. The company is announcing a “workplace-as-a-service” offering that combines a whole host of services into one monthly bundle. For $200 per worker per month, Sprint will handle a company’s entire network, including business calling, data service, corporate Wi-Fi, management of mobile devices and collaboration and messaging services. “We think this will become the way customers buy services,” Sprint Vice President Kevin Fitz said.

While Sprint has been offering most of those services separately, as do rivals, the new bundle is designed to appeal to small and midsize businesses that don’t have big Information technology departments and want one-stop shopping. The one optional component is cellular service, with Sprint acknowledging not all businesses are ready to move all their mobile phones and tablets to the carrier.