Less than a year before the 2022 Winter Olympics, US Ski & Snowboard (USSS) encountered a unique set of challenges related to mobile connectivity. The organization needed to provide full, private, and affordable mobile telecom and data access for 120 athletes, coaches, and support staff across various Olympic venues in China. The complexity of the situation was heightened by the departure of USSS’s IT project leader just two months before the games, which added urgency to the task. The original plan involved sending temporary devices and numbers with the team, but it became clear that athletes and staff preferred to retain their personal devices and phone numbers. With all USSS devices previously consolidated under T-Mobile or Sprint, the immediate need was to implement a BYOD (

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