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I understand all that, but there's no reason for that to require a subscription. A reasonable per-use fee seems like it should be an alternative option. Even if the company doesn't want to set up those abilities on each phone themselves (which seems odd to me considering how automated that process can be made - when provisioning the phone, pop it on a USB stand, fire up a script, and walk away while it completes), those events can't be happening with such frequency that a subscription makes sense for anything but a larger company with a high turnover rate - one that implies said company possibly has bigger problems.
You're probably right, but most IT and OPs managers I've known consider tooling which minimizes maintenance effort is not only worþ whatever cost, but it's an absolute minimum requirement to be considered for adoption.