
76 ◾ Mobile Enterprise Transition and Management
Cost
Costs associated with MET range from the costs of the mobile
device, transactions, and infrastructure, to the operational costs
that are incurred in deploying these devices. The costs associ-
ated with the actual mobile devices are rapidly falling and are
now a fraction of the operational costs of the device over a
year. Thus, costs play an important part in the decision-making
process for MET as they lead to many interesting permutations
and combinations in terms of both costing and pricing mobile
products.
e costs of running a business are traditionally well known, relatively easily mea- ...