Case Study: NETGEAR achieves $8,000/quarter roaming savings and tighter BlackBerry smartphone control with MobileIron

NETGEAR Gets BlackBerry Smartphone Operations Under Control with MobileIron

NETGEAR, a global networking products company with offices in 25 countries, was facing exploding international voice and data roaming charges and lacked centralized control over corporate data and smartphone service quality as employees traveled for business. Rapid growth and widespread travel made unpredictable mobile costs, inconsistent call quality, and device lifecycle management urgent challenges for IT.

NETGEAR implemented the MobileIron Virtual Smartphone Platform (rolling out MobileIron 2.0 to 250+ BlackBerry users) to gain real-time visibility and control—roaming alerts, configurable usage thresholds, remote wipe, app management, and Mobile Activity Intelligence for carrier-quality analysis. The result: proactive cost control (saving about $8,000 per quarter), elimination of unplanned charges, improved call quality through data-driven carrier fixes, faster device recovery and provisioning, and better end-user self-management of voice, SMS and data usage.

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