BUSINESS INSIGHTS
Top five reasons to reconsider your small business mobile plan
5:00 Minute Read
5:00 Minute Read
By Brian W. Kelly
Small business connectivity decisions have shifted from product comparison to business continuity outcomes. Entrepreneurs are no longer asking, “Which product is fastest?” Today, they’re asking questions like, “What keeps me reachable?” or “What keeps operations running without intervention?”and importantly, “What gives me confidence that connectivity will be there when I need it?” It all boils down to what small business owners really want: solid assurance that their mobile plans deliver reliable connectivity their business can count on wherever work happen.
1. Increasing data security
The best mobile plans will offer simplified security, data protection, and privacy options. This is important, as many employees store sensitive work information on their personal phones, including passwords. As employees use personal devices for work, organizations must contend with shadow IT. If these devices are unmanaged devices, they can create blind spots that cybercriminals can exploit. Many companies find that getting employees to comply with cybersecurity rules for electronic communications is one of their biggest challenges.
2. Decreasing administrative hassles
Managing stipends and reimbursements for personal devices is an administrative headache, especially when having to deal with various carrier agreements and multiple providers. Between verifying claims, managing expense reimbursements for individual employees, and ensuring compliance with tax regulations, managing BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) based communications can be a huge hassle. With the proper plan, companies can achieve significant cost savings through consolidated billing and volume discounts.
3. Using corporate liability to your advantage
When the company takes control of the mobile plan, it can be referred to as a corporate-liable approach. The company owns the devices and remains in control of data security and compliance issues. For smaller organizations, this means the mobile plan can be purchased with company credit, rather than personal credit as is often the case with businesses at the beginning of their growth plan.
4. Improving pricing, network coverage and 5G availability
When adopting a mobile plan, business leaders have the freedom to seek out the technology partner that offers the best plan pricing, the most comprehensive network coverage, and the most ubiquitous 5G availability. With the entire organization operating at the same levels of communications abilities, customers are better served, and commitments to service-level agreements can be more uniformly adhered to.
5. Controlling costs
The best mobile plans can offer business financing, and price guarantees of up to three years. Companies can increase the accuracy of their forecasting when they engage with partners that offer fixed cost services.
For small to mid-sized businesses that depend on staying connected to run their operations, Spectrum Mobile for Business delivers reliable connectivity wherever work happens. Unlike traditional carriers that require businesses to navigate complex plans, restrictions, and network trade-offs, we provide a seamless, simplified experience so you can operate with confidence, stay in control and focus on what matters most to you.
Spectrum Mobile for Business offers flexible mobile plans for business with clear and simple pricing. All plans include nationwide 5G coverage with no contracts or added taxes. Switching to Spectrum Business Mobile has never been easier.