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Many businesses are paying far too much for their mobile phones. There are too main reasons why, both of which involve being on the wrong tariff but in different ways:

1. Over generous tariff allowances

This is when a business is paying for too many minutes, texts or data to be included in their monthly package. For instance, if you have a 2,000 minute tariff but are only using 500 minutes you could drop down several tariffs and save a considerable amount each and every month.

Most networks will not allow dropping down several levels during the course of your contract, but they will perhaps allow a single drop. We can advise on the best course of action and also whether it is cost effective to buy out your current business mobile contract.

2. Not enough allowances within your tariff

The opposite of 1., and usually a lot more costly, not having enough allowances in your tariff leaves you paying "out-of-bundle" charges for a large proportion of your usage. Also included within this is failing to add bundles, or adding the incorrect bundles, for usage such as roaming data or anything that is not normally included within a standard business mobile tariff.

Networks are usually happy to increase tariffs during the course of your contract so increasing your allowances is usually straightforward. However, if your usage varies greatly from month to month the correct tariff might not be easy to determine.

It may be most cost effective to choose a tariff that covers the majority of your usage in an average month and pay out-of-bundle for extra usage, or it might work out cheaper to take a tariff that covers the usage in your highest months - we can advise you the best balanced solution which will save you money.

So how much could you save?

It varies between users and the only way to give you an accurate figure is to see your current bills, analyse your usage and recommend more appropriate tariffs. This is a free of charge service we offer to businesses of all sizes and types throughout the UK.

However, as an example, we have listed a real-life example below showing several thousand pounds worth of savings:

Company with 21 mobile phone handsets and 17 mobile data devices (for mobile broadband). Paying a total of £1,336 per month under their existing contract. We analyzed their current usage and, taking everything into account, our quotation amounted to £768 per month. A saving of £568 per month, a total annual saving of £6,816.

Extend this over the course of a standard 24 month business mobile contract and the savings are more than £13,000. For large businesses and corporate mobile phone users savings can be even larger.

Even for small and medium sized businesses savings can be considerable. Contact us for more information.

Categories: Business Mobiles, Corporate, Large Business, Reduce your bills, Savings

Mobile technology is constantly improving and competition in the market is keeping prices down, enabling businesses to get great deals on new handsets which can improve the way they work and make employees more efficient away from the office.

When was the last time you reviewed your business mobile contract? Have your usage or requirements changed since your last review?

In order to reduce your business mobile bills you need to match the optimum tariff to your actual usage. No point paying for minutes/texts/data you don't need, nor is it cost effective to go over your allowances each month and pay standard "out of bundle" rates.

Send us your bills

The best way of ensuring an accurate business mobile review is to show us your current bills so that we can see exactly where your money is being spent and where savings can be made. This cost reduction exercise can be done hand-in-hand with a review of how new mobile technology could improve performance.

We will analyse your current usage and show you a range of tariffs from the different networks as direct comparisons. This will form part of our final report which you can read at your leisure and decide if you would like to implement any of our suggested changes.

No longer is it a simple task of looking at the number of minutes you use, large parts of a modern business mobile bill are made up of data and particularly data roaming. Getting the best deal for this could save you a large chunk of your monthly spend very quickly.

A proper review of your business mobiles will look at maximising the ROI from your telecoms spend, matching cost reductions with productivity improvements. We can also address any issues you are currently having with connectivity and customer service.

Reviews can be undertaken at any point during your current contract, although it may not be cost effective to change providers if you have only just renewed. We will advise about the cost of buying out your current contract if appropriate and it may be fundable by ourselves in certain circumstances.

All reviews are free of charge and available to businesses large and small throughout the UK.

Categories: Business Mobiles, Reduce your bills