Mobile phone business contracts

[steveg]

Does anyone get involved in purchasing mobile contracts and and have you ever managed to buy them under the public sector frameworks? Or got a better deal elsewhere?

[speakercon]

I use EE business for ours, you get a nice dashboard you can manage the plans & download invoices.

[TechMonkey]

I do.

I was offered prices under the framework from Vodaphone but had the price beaten by other companies.

Speak to Three, if they have decent coverage in your area, as they are trying to build their business customer base quite aggressively.

O2 matched Three and then Three requoted.

 

Vodaphone does have the best admin portal I've seen so far but their prices are very high compared to the others. O2 have apparently updated theirs since I last used them so can't comment on that one.

[enjay]

We use Daisy, bought before I started but pretty sure it was done under framework. £3/month/device and a shared data pool, online portal for easy management and reporting, including per-device alerts and caps.

[steveg]

Thanks all, we're with O2 at the moment on a business sim only tariff. Their online portal is down at the moment which is rather annoying. I have tried to purchase through the framework direct with O2 but for the limited number of contracts we want they aren't interested and push us back to the business team, which are more expensive.

[RobFuller]

Does anyone have a link to the Framework, looking to tighten down on the growing cost of our contracts.

 

Thank you

[Zoom7000]

I went with LGfL for my most recent contracts. They offer 3 plans for schools on O2:

 

Unlimited Voice & Texts Only - £4.50/Month

Unlimited Data Only - £12/Month

Unlimited Voice, Texts & Data - £14.50/Month

 

https://national.lgfl.net/smartbuy/Mobile-Data

[RobFuller]

Three

 

Unlimited Data SIM - £10 + vat /month

Unlimited Voice, Text & 3 GB Data - £5 + vat /month

[steveg]

Three

 

Unlimited Data SIM - £10 + vat /month

Unlimited Voice, Text & 3 GB Data - £5 + vat /month

 

Is that from Three direct? Seems cheaper than their standard business rates

[StephenPink]

Looking at ours at the moment (currently most are with O2) - but has anyone considered the device/handset side of it? Want to ensure that all devices are kept up to date/refreshed regularly with minimal faff, but O2 didn't seem to have anything they could do (other than simply purchase devices from them).

 

Cheers

[RobFuller]

Is that from Three direct? Seems cheaper than their standard business rates

 

Yes it is

 

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Looking at ours at the moment (currently most are with O2) - but has anyone considered the device/handset side of it? Want to ensure that all devices are kept up to date/refreshed regularly with minimal faff, but O2 didn't seem to have anything they could do (other than simply purchase devices from them).

 

Cheers

 

Three have quoted me,

 

iPhone SE 2022 128GB – Red

24 Month tenure

500GB data, unlimited calls/texts

£24 + VAT each / month

 

Black Friday deal hence the larger memory on the iPhone and mobile data. Looking to replace all our handset so everything is on one MDM and Cyber Essentials compliant!

Edited November 23, 2022 by RobFuller

[Simcfc73]

I got ours from Tesco business for our drivers. £10 a month for a phone and decent contract.