This is a sponsored post from Jeff Thompson, CEO of Towerstream, a leading 4G service provider delivering high-speed wireless Internet access to businesses. Towerstream began providing service in Philadelphia in December 2009.

Philadelphia businesses are faced everyday with making company decisions on a range of topics — from finances to furniture. One common area of concern is Internet connectivity. For a while, businesses have been tied down by wired Internet connectivity, but 4G broadband is one of the most recent developments in wireless Internet, with higher speeds and faster connections than previous solutions. Here are the top 7 reasons why Philadelphia companies would benefit from switching to 4G:

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This is a sponsored post from Jeff Thompson, CEO of Towerstream, a leading 4G service provider delivering high-speed wireless Internet access to businesses. Towerstream began providing service in Philadelphia in December 2009.

How did anything get done before e-mail? It wasn’t that long ago that when I wanted to electronically share a document with a colleague I saved it onto a disk and ran down the hall to hand it to him or her. Today, I can e-mail that same colleague while sitting in a plane at 35,000 feet from my iPad.

The way that we communicate is rapidly evolving and is affecting both our personal and professional lives. The ability to share information with numerous parties in a fraction of a second has made collaboration and group organization easy and mainstream.

Last month, Philadelphia made national headlines when Mayor Nutter told the New York Times that the city would begin to monitor social media sites as a way of preventing ‘flash mobs.’ In the workplace, our communication habits because of social media has also changed as businesses are quickly adapting new technologies.

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