Yes it is possible, it is finally commercially available, and in due time will become typical of all mobile services. Sprint calls it Pivot. In a nutshell, Pivot is a service that links together your mobile phone, home digital phone, internet, and digital cable services.
John Garcia, president of the Sprint/MSO joint venture, comments, “Pivot links your wireless phone with the comforts of home. Our common vision is to give customers anywhere easy access to the entertainment, communications and information services that are already important to them (Multichannel.com).” With a culture that thrives on everything entertainment and with little patience for slow/outdated forms of communication, the Pivot seems like a godsend. Let us take a look at what makes Pivot an indication of future technologies.
One of the best things about this service is it allows the couch potato in all of us to leave the house without leaving behind our favorite shows. According to Brad Kellett’s article on MobileBurn.com, Pivot allows the user to “watch live and mobile TV,[and] access home TV listings.” Sprint is also promising a feature that allows for the user to program his or her DVR box. So far so good. The options for the TV junkie are fantastic but I fear that this could cause an increase in those “less than safe” drivers on the streets. As if our mobile phones weren’t overly important already, this service promotes the TV + phone feature. This will definitely help sell people on this here Pivot.
Besides TV, Pivot subscribers will be able to access home email and voicemail while on the go. Internet service will also be included and the user will have unlimited calls between home and mobile phone. But the best part of all?! All of these services will be on ONE monthly bill! For the people with hectic lives (pretty much everyone) this is quite the convenience. Another selling point on top of this single bill craziness is that night minutes begin at 7 p.m! This in itself seems small compared to the above mentioned offerings of Pivot but a nice little added bonus nonetheless.
So in the grand scheme of things what do we really have here?
We have a service that will become the future of mobile technology. More and more, people are using one device as a central hub for everything else. Sprint’s Pivot offers a service that can potentially make life easier for many people. However, for those that prefer using multiple devices, Pivot can be just an all too easy way for things to go haywire. It’s a philosophy I tell you.
Ironically, the comforts of home are becoming more and more accessible out of the house. It is interesting how things work out like that. Services like Pivot will make our gadgets even more a part of us to the point that we can’t have some alone time, away from it all. On that note, a quiet stroll in the park seems nice and well deserved…that is of course not without an episode of The Simpsons to accommodate me.
Mobile Burn- Sprint Unifies Home and Mobile Services with Pivot By Brad Kellett
http://www.mobileburn.com/news.jsp?Id=3237&source=HOME
Multichannel News- Sprint, Cable Ops to Market ‘Pivot’ Mobile Phones By Steve Donohue
http://www.multichannel.com/article/CA6427970.html?display=Breaking+News
Engadget- Pivot: Sprint's quad-play package By Peter Rojas
http://www.engadget.com/2007/03/26/pivot-sprints-quad-play-package/
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