
1. Before you sign up to any deal, make sure you have an idea of what you want and what you need from the provider.
2. Try to get a contract that involves you using more than one handset so that you can have one bill for several employees.
3. Think about whether calls or texts will be used the most, and take this into consideration when choosing a contract, getting a deal with the most of what you use included.
4. Try to get free calls between the same networks, which most providers allow. Essentially you will be getting free calls between everyone in your business.
5. If you have offices abroad, have a look for deals that do special offers on international calls.
6. Every 12 months when your contract is up, review it and have a look around, don't just renew it as you might find a better deal.
7. If you are currently using a pay as you go phone for business calls and you are spending over £15 per month, you will benefit from swapping to a contract deal.
8. Think about how many people within the business will be needing a business mobile. If it is above 5 it is worth getting a combined one, but below you might as well get separate deals for each.
9. Make sure you choose a tariff with data allowance so that you are not charged extra for all the emails that you send and receive from your phone.
10. Always tell the provider if you have seen a better deal and let them try and beat it. Elite Telecom has many providers so can usually do that for you.
At Elite Telecom we work alongside some of the UK’s leading business mobile phone providers and manufacturers, one of them being 3. We offer a wide range of different contracts created especially for business purposes and the handsets to go with it. We can build a bespoke business mobile solution to meet your business’s telecommunication needs.
Hutchison Telecommunications Hong Kong has announced the availability of its new brand – 3ree Broadband.
In conjunction with mobile operator 3, Hutchison Telecommunications Hong Kong has integrated its mobile and fixed line broadband services under this new brand.
As well as offering good deals on mobile broadband, voice and fixed broadband, should customers turn to 3ree Broadband, they will also be able to use for free, all of the Wi-Fi spots in Hong Kong.
3 UK, the mobile phone operator, is about to spark off a price war for the coveted iPhone 4 mobile from Apple. 3 is currently taking pre-orders for the micro-SIM price plans and I have to say, it’s quite a good deal. For £15 a month, customers will get a 30-day rolling contract that offers 300 minutes, 3,000 texts, 1GB of data and 2,000 3-to-3 texts.
The other major mobile operators that will be selling the iPhone 4 are Vodafone, Orange, O2 and there’s a whisper that Tesco is going to sell the iPhone 4 as well. Vodafone, Orange and O2 are also offering 30 day contracts however, for £25 – which is alright for them, but as the smallest mobile operator, 3 has to offer a cheaper price plan in order tog et the business.
Mobile phone network 3 has released its data plans for the Apple iPad, which it is due to start selling on Friday. As well as boasting that it has the largest network in the country, 3 also seems to have the best priced data plans for the Apple iPad.
For £7.50 per month, customers of 3 can get up to 1GB of data use a month while £15 will get you up to 10GB of data use. This compares to £15 for 5GB with Orange, £15 for 3GB with Orange and £15 for 3GB with O2. Also, 3 customers won’t have to sign a contract, meaning that they can make their tariffs flexible. Far from being “highly competitive” as Marc Allera, sales and marketing director at 3, says – 3 has blown the competition away!
Mobile operator 3 UK has taken a simpler option to the mobile phone game craze that has swept the nation. Rather than having a multitude of different apps with different prices and payment options, 3 is creating a simpler user experience in the hopes that customers will instead choose to go with 3.
3 is offering two simple price plans for access to games – a free trial or a full download for £4.99. 3 uses Accumulate for its game wrapping service, which also wraps games for other mobile phone operators and manufacturers.
Nokia Siemens Networks announced last week that it has signed a lucrative deal with mobile phone network providers T-Mobile and 3. The deal is rumoured to be around £400 million and will require Nokia Siemens Networks to expand 3 and T-Mobile’s 3G (third generation) networks within the UK.
As well as the expansion of the network, the contract will involve maintenance, servicing and planning too. Nokia Siemens Networks, 3 and T-Mobile are hoping that the end of 2010 will see a joint coverage of the UK, with a mobile network covering around 98% of the population.
After numerous rumours that the launch would be postponed, we are glad to announce that the HTC Desire was shipped to the UK at the end of last week! Rumours about the Android-based mobile phone were flying around however Vodafone addressed the masses saying that the handset would be on time for its schedule. Vodafone allowed that a technical error concerning emails had caused a problem but rumours of delaying the UK launch were untrue.
The HTC Desire will be sold by mobile phone company 3 towards the end of April.
Ofcom recently announced its intention to drastically reduce mobile termination rates – the charges that mobile operators impose in order to connect calls to their network. Despite most mobile operators professing outrage at the measure, mainly due to the impact it will have on their profits, one mobile operator is welcoming the new measure with open arms.
Mobile operator 3 has yet to report any pre-tax profits since it was launched. Because the company is the smallest out of all the mobile operators in the UK, 3’s profits are greatly reduced by current mobile termination rates. Now that the rates are due to be cut, 3 is being granted a new lease of life and it has vowed to grow its customer base aggressively. Say hello to the little mobile company that could.
Tired of being the runt of the litter, mobile provider 3 is to use ‘aggressive expansion’ to grow its network and increase its customer base. 3 is currently the smallest mobile phone provider in the UK as start-up troubles with handsets and networks created a negative image which still shadows its development today. However, 3 now has one of the strongest mobile networks in the UK and has just planted its 10,000th phone mast. By the end of the year, 3 predicts it will have a 98% network coverage of the UK. We’ll see who’s smallest then.