- Architectural practice
- business services
- Butcher
- Café
- Carpenters
- Chartered surveyor
- Couriers
- Domestic services
- Electricians
- Entertainment promotions
- Estate Agents
- Florist
- Glaziers
- housing services
- Legal services
- Local retail
- Local services
- Marketing
- Personal Services
- Plumbing services
- Publisher
- Retail
- Shoe Shop
- Wedding services
The builder
As a bricklayer and buildings project manager Robert Coursey has a successful and thriving business. He maintains a large network of contacts, who he brings in to help on projects as needed. He needs a mobile phone to assist him in this job.
The financial advisor
Helpmann FA is a well established company of independent financial advisors, which has just bought out a smaller company as the owner has retired. The merging of two businesses presents opportunities to take a serious look at all office and procedural systems
The independent music shop
This independent music shop has a dynamic and enthusiastic pair of owners who need to be in contact with each other when they are apart on business, and need to be able to access and manage work related emails at a distance.
The personal trainer
As a sole worker Paul Collier has to manage all aspects of his business alone. He has a full schedule as a personal fitness trainer and needs to maximise his use of time. Paul needs to be flexible about where he works as he often spends much of his working day away from his home-based office.
The Roofers
Easy-to-use, robust handsets are required by small, family-run roofing firm
Whether you are a one man band or part of a business with up to 50 employees, if it's your responsibility to choose a mobile solution for your company there are a number of things to consider above and beyond choosing a suitable handset.
- What sort of voice tariff do you need? Tariffs fall in to the following camps:
- A flat-rate tariff with no inclusive minutes, so you know exactly what you are paying for.
- Individual-minute bundles of varying sizes for each member of your team
- A sharer tariff where the minutes are allocated to users on a first-come, first served basis
- What's the monthly line rental charge and are there any calls included in teh price?
- How much do calls cost with the different tariffs? This breaks down as:
- Calls to UK fixed lines
- Calls to UK mobiles on the same network
- Calls to other UK mobile networks
- International calls, or calls made while out side the UK - some operators offer international call discount for a set fee every month
- Does the tariff reward you with discounted calls to people in your business on the same tariff - sometimes called 'company caller discount' ?
- Data bundles. If you are a heavy internet or email user, does the tariff have an allocation of data built into the deal, or do you have to add this on as a separate bundle?