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26 Sep 2008, 11:20 am

Now more than ever the Mobile telecommunications market is confusing.

Companies are offering free mobile phones again, and capped plans are more and more prevalent. What a business needs to look at closely is what are they trying to achieve from their mobile fleet.

At Arrow Voice & Data we have over 13 years experience in the mobile market and we have been listening to our customers and partners and have evolved with the maturing market.

Arrow voice & Data offers a wide range of mobile plans but none better that our 8c fleet plan and our new BB range of plans. Capped plans are great for an individual, howevr the percieved value from these plans is greatly inflated. We all know that in business nothing is free, everything has a price. So what we need to look at then is value.

Any body who says, if you pay $79.00 per month I will give you $500 worth of calls, or value the immediate question is what do you get out of this. It is not a value proposition. When you are using your mobile phone for business you cannot decide that when you have reached your cap you will not make calls any more because they will cost nearly $1.00 per minute.

At $1.00 per minute with 60 minutes in an hour it costs $60 for every hour you are on the phone. at 16c per minute with a tiny flag fall of only 8c a 1 minute calls now costs only $0.24c. So when you purchase a capped plan and believe you are getting the best value in the market place this is only correct if you you make within 80% to 120% of your allocated call allotment other wise you are paying too much.

At 8c per 30 seconds this is the cheapest plan in the marketplace that I am aware of and clearly adds value. When you throw in $5.00 unlimited voice mail deposits and retrievals and free 5 minute calls back to base (a designated land line for your fleet to call), the ability to add Blackberry to the service and an aggregated call spend across your account (shared call spend between all mobile on the same account) it quickly becomes a no brainer.

A business must look towards value not at “smoke and mirrors” look at the best case and worst case scenario and make a decision where by they can forcast their costs rather than run the risk of either not getting the full benefits from their current provider and not getting maximum value from their new provider.

As history has proven have mobile usage is increasing and the question you need to ask is do you have costs run out of control or be in control and prepared for all situations and comfortable that you are receiving the best possible value for you business. 

 

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24 Oct 2008, 8:17am
by Aaron Cook


Now days i seem to be using my phone more for email and other data services rather than for making phone calls. I have had one of these capped plans and i worked OK for me, but i did go over it once which cost about 3 time a normal bill.
Most capped plans don’t seem to have data allowances. Do your capped plans offer a data package?

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