Getting a Cell phone for your business

February 4, 2007 | Author: Eve Lester | Filed under: Technology

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Some business ideas take you outside the home, or you just may want a second line that you can take with you when you go out. Cell phones and plans can be extremely expensive. Not to mention if you have to pay a deposit to the cell phone company. Your first step, when you decide to start shopping for a cell phone is to research every possible available option. You can use wirefly’s comparison chart here that compares all sorts of available cell phone plansin your area.

I did the Wirefly Wizard for my area and it came up with about 15 different companies, showing me how much each was, as well as a Wirefly Market Coverage Rating and the Consumer ratings for Customer Service and Cost & Service Plan options, as measured by J.D. Power and Associates. It is absolutely amazing how varied the plan prices can be, I have seen as much as a forty dollar price difference for the same features between two companies.

In order to determine the right plan for you, first figure out how often and at what times you will be using the phone. If you will mainly be using it during the day, then paying extra to have free night and weekend may not be worth it, in that case you would focus on getting the lowest daytime rate, or even better, unlimited. You also need to know if you will be sending or receiving text messages, need internet access, and if you will have a specific group of people you will be calling most. That is when the plans for ‘in-network’ can come in handy, find out what network your most called people are, and check their rates as well.

Regardless, Wirefly is a great place to start this research, I have used their calculators and comparisons and they do seem to have cheaper and better rates all around.

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