
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.
Elite Telecom works alongside mobile phone manufacturers, such as Vodafone, to help provide businesses with better communications within their company. We can provide you with business mobiles that they can then link to their business broadband and phone systems to allow for more unified communications.
Vodafone is a well respected mobile phone operator that offers a highly regarded network. Working alongside Vodafone, Elite can offer business-specific tariffs and the latest mobile phone handsets for you and your employees.
But it still doesn’t beat Three's offer.
Vodafone are offering their soul to the business world (not literally) by offering small businesses top notch smartphones and doubling the monthly allowances previously in place – but for a limited time only.
Customers who sign up to the £36 per month, two-year Vodafone Business Essentials tariff before the last day of the month will receive 1,500 any-network minutes, 500MB of internet allowance, 3,000 landline minutes, 3,250 texts and a free handset.
The telecoms firm rather dishonestly advertise the price at £30 a month – discounting VAT from the overall price. There is also an option to add unlimited calls to other Vodafone handsets for an extra £2 and unlimited texts for an extra £4 onto the monthly contract.
Handsets included in the offer are: BlackBerry Bold 9780, HTC Desire, Motorola Defy or Nokia N8.

Other companies are cottoning onto the business mobiles trend, by appealing to the audience most investing in the smartphone. T Mobile, Orange and Three have all released similar tariffs.
However, even though T-Mobile claims to allow unlimited internet, this is subject to the controversial fair use policy we reported on yesterday, which means that users will have to pay to stream videos.
However, it is Three's One Plan that appears to be one of the best tariffs on the mobile market. At £35 per month for two-years you’re guaranteed 2,000 anytime minutes, 5,000 texts, all-you-can eat data, 5,000 Three-to-Three minutes, voicemail and six months' free Spotify Premium. Users can also choose a free handset such as a Nokia N8.
All-you-can-eat data. Well, that’s enough for us.
Hands up who watched the Big Fat Quiz of the Year last night? I did, and it was brilliant. It has caused me to see the word “Apple” in a whole different light, and now, thanks to comedic giant Michael McIntyre, I can’t seem to shake the term “AhhPull” from my mind.
It’s only day three of the year and the technology firm has already managed to anger most of Europe, Australia and New Zealand to what they are insisting is just a ‘software glitch.’
Most users of Apple’s iPhone were left frustrated as the malfunction meant that recurring alarms did not go off on the first two days of the year.

The company confirmed there was an issue caused by malfunctions over clock changes. Spokeswoman Natalie Harrison told Reuters: "We're aware of an issue related to non-repeating alarms set for January 1 or 2.
"Customers can set recurring alarms for those dates and all alarms will work properly beginning January 3."
No reason has been given for the glitch, which affected mobile phones using the latest iOS 4.0 operating system.
People flocked online in their thousands to vent their anger via Facebook and Twitter, which was obviously a good use of their time considering they were probably already late for work.
Happy New Year folks!
Mobile phone provider Vodafone is on a mission to become a provider of full communications services – and analysts believe that the way Vodafone will do this will be by acquiring UK companies.
Unnamed sources have indicated that Vodafone has got its eye on a company as we speak. In fact, the sources have named Vodafone as one of three prospective buyers of Phones4U. There are also rumours that Vodafone is interested in acquiring TalkTalk, the telecoms company.
However, taking into consideration the current climate, Vodafone shareholders may not be too keen to let go of the purse strings just yet.
Vittorio Colao, the chief executive of mobile phone operator Vodafone, has spoken at the Nokia World 2010 conference in London about data caps and the future of mobile phones.
Many mobile phone operators have begun to introduce caps on data usage, as networks struggle to cope with the amount of traffic on mobile broadband. According to Colao, data caps are only going to get tighter and the age of free-for-all data is going to end as mobile phone companies begin to charge for every piece of data.
Colao said, “The principle here must be that, a bit like motorways or hotels, every class of service needs to have its own price, and customers must be able to pay for the level of service they want.”
Mobile phone operator Vodafone has decided to concentrate more on its core markets rather than its minority holdings which is why the company has decided to begin selling off all of its minority stakes.
This is why Vodafone announced this week that it will be selling its 3.2% stake in China Mobile for an approximate £4.3 billion. Vodafone has said that 70% of the sale proceeds would be returned to shareholders via a share buyback and the rest of the proceeds would go to reducing Vodafone’s debt. Despite selling off its stake, Vodafone will continue to work closely with China Mobile.
The current chairman of mobile phone company Vodafone, Sir John Bond, is preparing to vacate the Vodafone throne after much shareholder unrest regarding the acquisitions and sales strategies of Vodafone. Vodafone has said that the decision by Bond to leave was already made - the current unrest has simply made matters a little more urgent.
This years meeting saw shareholders led by the shareholders led by Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan try to get rid of Sir John Bond, however the bid failed. Due to this, Bond has said that he will step down as chairman. Vodafone is hoping to find a new chairman in time for next year’s annual board meeting.
Mobile phone provider Vodafone apparently has the intention of selling its China Mobile shares in a bid to save money and re-focus its interest on becoming a big player in emerging markets.
The sale of Vodafone’s shares in China Mobile should net the company around £4 billion and is only the first in a series of sell-offs by Vodafone rumour has it. According to sources, the deal will be given the go ahead next month but as of yet, Vodafone has made no comment on the sell-off rumours.
Mobile phone operator Vodafone has launched a new mobile Wi-Fi device that will allow five users to share a connection and get online.
The Vodafone Mobile Wi-Fi R201 can connect a Wi-Fi enabled device to a 3G network, thus increasing the options of connectivity and also, in this case, allowing five users to share a connection.
Vodafone has said that it has made the device in this way because so many devices now need a Wi-Fi connection to connect to mobile broadband, so this allows more people to get online. More flexible than a dongle, the new Vodafone Mobile Wi-Fi R201 should prove to be a popular buy.