Within your business mobile
contract you can include mobile broadband for a range of devices. This can
be provided sim (or micro sim) only, for you to plug into a device of your
choice, or with a supplied device such as a USB dongle.
3G mobile broadband coverage and speed has improved markedly
in recent months as networks optimise their networks to provide greater access
to data services.
We recommend Vodafone Mobile Broadband as the best network
coverage and speed (at least in our opinion!). You can check coverage online
via the Vodafone
coverage checker. Make sure your area gets a decent 3G signal before
considering signing up to a contract.
Vodafone Mobile
Broadband Tariffs
Whilst Vodafone do offer pay as you go tariffs, most business
users will benefit from a contract and this breaks down the domestic options
into 2 main categories: light users and heavy users.
The light user mobile broadband tariff gives you £12.50/month,
2GB data allowance, plus 2GB BT Openzone Wi-fi. If you are using the connection
primarily for email and some web browsing this tariff would normally be
sufficient.
Heavy users can opt for the £19.00/month, 5GB data allowance,
plus 2GB BT Openzone Wi-fi. If you are going to be downloading or streaming
this is a better tariff to be on. We particularly recommend this tariff for
tablet devices, as iPad (or similar) ownership usually leads to large data
usage!
Other tariffs are available which focus on Europe
and Worldwide roaming data. These are more expensive and download limits are a
bit stingy!
We can supply a range of mobile broadband
devices free of charge on different contracts. These can be provided as part of
a larger business mobile contract or as standalone for consumers and small
businesses.
How
much mobile data do you need?
As a guide, 500MB of data gives
you a daily allowance of:
· 250 emails
· 35 Word documents
· 25 PowerPoint,
Excel or Acrobat attachments
Obviously these figures are very approximate as the size of emails will
vary and it may be that in your business all of your attachments and emails are
large, in which case you need to reduce the quoted figures.