Key connectivity challenges and what it takes to solve them
by Webbing Team | June 24, 2026
Sending a group of employees on a business trip or adding a worker abroad to the company roster may not seem particularly complicated. But from a connectivity perspective, scaling enterprise mobility is far from simple. How do companies ensure secure and stable connectivity, unified policies, and centralized mobility management for multiple devices in various regions? What challenges arise as their mobility programs grow?
There are several major trends that are changing the way enterprises manage mobile connectivity today. The first is hybrid work. Although the share of remote workers has somewhat declined since the COVID days, most employees still need reliable connectivity to work from locations other than the office. Gallup reports that among U.S. remote-capable employees, 52% work hybrid, 26% are fully remote.
The second trend is that security is becoming an integral part of connectivity. Enterprise mobility security used to focus mainly on protecting devices on the corporate network, but today employees work from anywhere and often use public networks, which makes the traditional network perimeter far less relevant. More enterprises are adopting Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA) and Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) models, where access is based on user identity, device status, location, and security policies, rather than simply whether a user is connected to the corporate network. Gartner’s 2025 Zero Trust outlook also points to scaling Zero Trust technologies as a key priority for stronger security and resilience.
Another important trend is eSIM adoption. GSMA Intelligence projects that eSIM smartphone connections will reach 4.9 billion by 2030, equal to 55% of total smartphone connections. For enterprises, wider eSIM adoption makes it easier to remotely provision devices and scale global mobile connectivity.
BYOD is also becoming increasingly common: according to Ivanti research, 44% workers use personal phones for work and 32% use their own personal computers, and 52% of organizations officially allow it. BYOD makes enterprise mobility harder to scale because IT has to support many personal devices it does not fully own or standardize.
But beyond the strategic implications, scaling creates practical technical challenges that require real solutions. Let’s look at the major challenges that companies may have when scaling their enterprise mobility programs:
Security Expansion and Attack Surface Growth
Every connected device increases potential security risk, so scaling enterprise mobility also expands the attack surface. As mobility programs grow, IT teams must enforce consistent security policies (including BYOD policies), secure devices outside the traditional corporate perimeter, and maintain visibility and control.
Webbing operates its own core network with 11 data centers worldwide, helping ensure secure connectivity. It enables IT teams to enforce unified network security policies globally to all users and devices at the connectivity level, control IP allocation, and authenticate devices using IMEI and IP identity to help prevent spoofing.
In addition, Webbing’s network architecture allows enterprises to control where and how internet traffic is routed, either by replicating existing security gateways at Webbing PoPs or routing traffic through secure site-to-site VPNs to the enterprise’s own security infrastructure. Webbing’s CMP also enables centralized policy management for connected devices, including data caps, speed limits, and content control.
Inconsistent Coverage and Reliability
When thinking about connectivity for enterprise users, people usually focus on the places where they need to stay connected: offices, homes, airports, remote sites, factories, vehicles, etc, which means sufficient coverage. But coverage alone is not enough. Connectivity also needs to remain stable and reliable, which means IT teams must deal with challenges such as indoor dead zones, weak rural coverage, and congested urban networks.
Webbing developed its connectivity solutions with both these challenges in mind. We have built an ecosystem of over 600 mobile operators worldwide, so devices can roam seamlessly across multiple carriers’ networks in every region. It solves the problem of weak spots that any mobile network may have and ensures full coverage anywhere.
Moreover, our eSIM solution guarantees failover connectivity with the capability of using multiple mobile carrier profiles and an option to fall back from a failing profile to a different profile without any need to communicate with a remote server or deal with multiple SIM cards. Easily set business rules help determine automatic profile allocation based on location and enable fallback mechanisms in case of network failure or coverage issues.
Carrier Fragmentation and Multi-Network Complexity
One of the biggest scaling problems is managing multiple mobile carriers in different countries and regions. There’s a whole range of issues that enterprises may face here, including handling multiple carrier contracts, separate management portals and billing systems for each operator.
Webbing offers access to multiple carrier networks in different countries under one SIM or eSIM profile, and a centralized Connectivity Management Platform that allows customers to configure and manage connectivity for all devices. It is customizable and provides detailed billing breakdowns, allowing clients to view usage reports by department, device, or project.
Cost Growth and Unpredictable Spend
Scaling mobility programs often leads to rising mobile data costs. These costs may be driven by growing data consumption, such as when devices use video-heavy applications, or by roaming, when consumption remains unchanged, but data costs are higher – for example, when roaming internationally.
There are many factors that should be taken into account when planning enterprise mobility scaling. Data plans should be aligned with the usage scenarios, 5G can intensify data consumption because faster networks encourage higher consumption, but overall it can be difficult to forecast usage, especially when managing thousands of different devices in various countries.
At Webbing, we tailor our connectivity offering for every customer based on the type of connected devices and their data consumption needs as well as the locations where the devices are used. We target overall optimization of the total cost of operations for the client rather than offering “one-size-fits-all” data packages. Our flexible pricing models are built around business needs and allow quick and easy scaling, and include pay-as-you-go plans, fixed-cost data packages, dynamic pools where data is shared between active devices, or static pools, where fixed data bundles are mapped to specific devices or locations. Our solution eliminates high data roaming fees when traveling abroad, driving greater productivity while on the road.
Poor Visibility
When adding more devices to enterprise mobility programs, IT teams may often lose visibility into which devices are online, and more importantly, what is their data usage and roaming status. This makes it harder to control costs and complicates troubleshooting. When users only report that “the app is slow”, the reason could be anything from weak cellular signal to VPN latency. So without proper visibility, resolving issues may become extremely difficult and operationally expensive.
Webbing addresses these challenges with a centralized portal for managing SIMs, devices, and connectivity policies, including usage alerts and profile switching. The platform provides detailed usage reports by device, carrier and country, supports real-time usage and security monitoring, and simplifies day-to-day operations and dependency on support. It also offers customizable permission levels, allowing enterprises to assign roles with required level of visibility and control for secure and efficient operations. To make troubleshooting easier, our 24/7 Network Operation Center (NOC) helps with online threats detection and specific customer environment monitoring.
Webbing’s Connectivity Solution for Enterprise Mobility
Webbing delivers a powerful end-to-end connectivity solution that simplifies device management, maximizes uptime and keeps your teams securely connected.
Webbing’s connectivity solutions guarantee global coverage, and through our ecosystem of over 600 mobile operators worldwide, devices can roam seamlessly across multiple carriers’ networks in every region. It solves the problem of weak spots that any mobile network may have and ensures full coverage and continuous connectivity for all units, anywhere.
Webbing is a carrier-grade service provider that has a fully redundant distributed core network infrastructure with data centers on every continent. It is well suited to support mission-critical, high-data consumption type of use cases and provides connectivity stability and low latency. It also allows for all types of localization, making it easy to comply with local regulation requirements even in heavily regulated markets.
Our eSIM solution ensures failover connectivity with the capability of using multiple mobile carrier profiles, easily changing carriers at any time, and an option to fall back from a failing profile to a different profile without any need to communicate with a remote server. Webbing also offers a portal to manage eSIMs throughout their lifecycle. It allows for defining business rules that govern the automatic profile swap process and provides visibility to profile usage and network events, to guarantee transparent connectivity. With Webbing’s solution, enterprises can manage connected devices in bulk, easily scale global IoT deployments, monitor and control the data usage of each device.
Our solutions help enterprises overcome their connectivity problems and reduce time to market for global deployments, providing the benefits of roaming with multiple carrier options and seamless transition between carriers with a single SIM.
Reach out today to learn more about Webbing’s connectivity solutions for Enterprise Mobility usage scenarios.
