Business Mobile World

The Business Mobile World website is now listed at Free Index - http://www.businessmobileworld.freeindex.co.uk/

Free Index is an online business directory offering free listings to businesses with a range of features, all free of charge. We have added 2 services to our listings as follows:

• Business Mobile Tariffs
• Free calls to mobiles

These reflect our best current offerings to businesses of all types and size. The opportunity to reduce costs on your own business mobiles and to reduce your landline bills by making free calls to other people's mobiles.

We are always looking at ways of saving your business money, both at our initial review and on an ongoing basis. We also keep you up-to-date with the latest technology which could save your business time and money.

We have a new product in our range which will enable business users to make cheap calls to mobile phones. It is a new kind of phone system which includes a built-in sim card to route mobile calls via a mobile phone network.

The system is a VoIP unit, carrying calls over the internet. It is also compatible with analogue lines. It can support up to 16 extensions so is ideal for small and medium sized businesses.

The size of a standard business phone handset (see picture), everything is included within the one main unit, including the pbx and sim card reader. Being a VoIP unit it has a number of advanced features which are not available on standard analogue systems.

Best of all this unit allows you to make cheap (even free) calls to mobile phones via the built in sim reader. Intelligent least cost routing identifies all calls to mobiles (starting 07) and routes them via the mobile phone network. These minutes come out of your agreed mobile phone package so they can be included within your inclusive minutes.

All other calls can then be routed via the internet. So all you require is a decent broadband connection, which we can supply if necessary. It is best to pay a little bit more for business grade broadband with a low contention ratio, giving a guaranteed service and call quality.

So impressed are we with this system that we are producing a dedicated website - 21c VoIP Phone Systems - to provide further information and to make it easy to purchase. This is a plug and play device - we program it to your requirements before despatch so that it can be used straight out of the box.

Get in touch with us for more information and pricing.

We have a number of websites providing business phone services. These are mainly for business mobiles but also for business landlines, broadband, mobile broadband and IT services too.

One such site, UK business phone deals, has recently undergone a revamp, although this is actually a rollback to a previous site rather than a new website. Unfortunately our experiment with the content management system, Mojo Portal, has proved to be delivering pages much too slowly, making the website close to unusable.

So we've removed the database driven site and replaced it with the old straight html pages to speed it up. Hopefully this will improve the visitor experience and enable businesses to start saving money on their mobiles and communications.

A new website for UK mobile phone deals will be coming soon, when time allows. This will offer a full range of business phones including mobiles and landlines plus details of all of the many services we offer to improve your business communications.

We continue to work on all of our websites, adding new content and updating new products and services as they become available. Some of our other sites include:

• Best business mobile deals
• Best business phone deals

For news of changes and developments simply keep tuned to the Business Mobile World Blog where we will publish amendments as they happen.

We have been looking at how we can make it easier for you to get in touch with us to get a quotation for your business mobiles.

The first solution has been to reduce the size of our online enquiry form. A number of fields have been removed and now it is just basic contact information we require and we will contact you from there to obtain anything else we need.

We have tested the new form out and it takes less than a minute to complete, typing in every field. If you have any sort of auto fill for forms enabled on your browser it will be even quicker!

We have also changed the telephone number displayed on the website from an 0844 number to a local 0115 number. This means that callers from mobile phones can get in touch cheaper (and usually free from inclusive minutes). Call us on 0115 944 8977 for a business mobile quote.

Remember our quotes are free of charge and without obligation. We can quote from one handset to two hundred plus and our aim is to save your business money whilst improving your communications.

In addition to business mobiles we also offer a number of related telecoms products including landlines, broadband, tracking and more. All of our services are designed to work in harmony together, streamlining both your internal and external communications, not to mention your administration and billing.

So visit our new look business mobile enquiry form and take a single minute out of your busy day to save your business some money.

We have a number of websites promoting our products and services. Some are specifically tailored to a particular category, such as business mobiles, whilst others are more generalised giving an overview of many of the different communication areas we can help your business with.

We have today updated Best Business Phone Deals with another three pages. These are as follows:

• Small business phones
• Business phones in Derbyshire
• Business phones in Nottinghamshire

These all emphasise that whilst we are able to provide a national service, our core business is working with local businesses throughout the East Midlands to provide them with a full portfolio of communication and IT products.

The advantages of dealing with a local company are many. Firstly, if there is any element of call-out, a local company will almost certainly be cheaper than a centralised national company. For instance if you need a small telephone system installing.

Secondly, if anything goes wrong, particularly with hardware, we can come out quickly to put it right. Finally we provide a much more personal service. No call centres and a dedicated account manager to contact.

We are right in the heart of the midlands, ideally placed to service Derbyshire, Nottinghamshire and Leicestershire. There are no businesses too large or small to take advantage of our services.

Quotes are free and without obligation and as well as looking at ways to save your business money we also look at how your communications can be improved and new technology incorporated into your existing systems.

Fill out our simple enquiry form and we'll contact you and show you how much your business could save.

The new UK Mobile Phone Deals website is now live and ready for you to visit.

As well as offering business mobile phones, it also has links to consumer mobiles with a mobile phone shop offering free mobiles, the latest deals, offers and mobile phone extras.

There is a blog, online polls, mobile broadband section and there will be plenty more to come in the near future.

We intend to keep it updated with the latest mobile phone news on a daily basis, at least during the working week, and it will have different content to the stuff posted here on Business Mobile World.

It is based on the MojoPortal content management system and is an experiment in terms of its effectiveness in search engine optimisation. We will be keeping a close eye on it in the search engines to see if it does better or worse than the old site.

We have updated our business mobile enquiry form with new security via a captcha. This is something you have likely come across on the internet before when filling out forms and it stops spammers from utilising the form to send out their emails.

An example is on the right. By entering the two words (in this case "utopias" and "Budget") it confirms you are a human being. Also it has an in-built audio feature for people who are visually impaired.

Hopefully it will work to stop the spam applications which come through from time to time. If it is successful it will be rolled out across all of the company application forms for landlines, mobile broadband etc.

Otherwise the form remains the same, asking the same questions which enable us to find your business the best business mobile deal from the networks we deal with.

It's been a bit quiet here with our blogger and website updater away for a couple of weeks. However, he's back now and raring to go!

So what's been happening in the world of mobile phones and business mobile phones in the past 14 days? This is a chance for you (and him!) to catch up with the latest mobile phone news in the UK.

• Firstly it looks like some staff at T-Mobile have been selling-on data on its customers to third parties who then contact the customers in advance of their upgrade date to upgrade their phones. This illegal activity is likely to result in a criminal prosecution and even some jail time. However there is no suggestion that details such as financial information/bank accounts have been compromised or sold on.
  
• Harriet Harman, the Deputy Leader of the Labour Party, looks like being prosecuted for being involved in a road accident whilst using a mobile phone. There is no excuse for using your handset whilst driving, hands-free kits are available and are very cheap. We can supply any of our existing customers with the kits and can even arrange for installation where a fixed kit is required.
  
• Arriva, the bus company, has become the first in the UK to launch a mobile phone ticket service. Prepaid tickets can be sent to your mobile phone. The ticket is then activated by the user on the day of travel and shown to the driver in the same way as a paper ticket.
  
• Recent research suggests that UK businesses could potentially be wasting up to £264 million each year on mobile call costs. This is mainly due to employees simply picking up the phone and ringing without thinking about the cost of the call and whether there are cheaper options available (after all it is not their money they are wasting!).
  
  Many of these calls are made from within offices where alternatives are available. However, employees are not the only ones to blame. Many businesses fail to make the best use of their resources, such as Wi-Fi networks, which could enable cheap/free calls over the internet from their business mobiles.
  
  If your business is looking to save money on its phone calls get in touch for a wide range of options available to small businesses and largeer users alike.

That's some of the news from the mobile phone world. To keep in touch with developments bookmark this blog, which will now be updated a bit more often!

Work is continuing on our group website UK mobile phone deals. As blogged previously we have been experimenting with a content management system (CMS) to make it easier for us to update the site remotely.

We originally tried Joomla, which was easy to install and get up and running. However, it was a little counter-intuitive, not easy to use for a beginner, although it might have become easier with a bit of practice.

However, what finally led us to abandon this system was the implementation of search engine friendly urls. When we turned them on within the software it caused a number of problems. Despite much research on the internet we were unable to solve these problems.

It looks like our Windows based server was the problem. Many users running Windows encountered similar problems. Rather than migrate all of our sites to another server we decided to look for a Windows-friendly CMS.

After a bit of research we came across MojoPortal. After download it was a big package to unzip and upload and installation didn't go without a hitch. However the problem was that the server was running an old version of ASP.NET. Once it was updated to the 3.5 Framework the program installed itself without a hitch.

Getting started was made easier by the online video tutorials which guided us through the set up stage and the interface is very user friendly. We haven't done much with it so far, you can see it in action at http://www.ukmobilephonedeals.co.uk/index.aspx.

We are currently experimenting with what it can do and will ultimately be looking at using our own templates to get a website design that better suits the subject matter (business mobiles).

Once we are completely happy with the new site it will go live and then we will look at implementing similar systems on our main site, 21C Telecom, due for relaunch in 2010.

Another morning with an inbox stuffed with spam application forms. It seems spammers like our sites to use to send out their nonsense.

So updates have been made to the contact forms on the two sites in question, Best Business Phone Deals and Best Business Mobile Deals. This should stop them for a while. No doubt they will find some other sites to use or find a way around the human validation question in time.

However for the time being we hope to be receiving less spam and more genuine business applications in our inbox.

Work continues on the Joomla content management system for UK Mobile Phone Deals. The search engine friendly urls are throwing a real spanner in the works as we are hosted on a Windows server.

Without SEF turned on it seems to work fine, but once they are turned on the pages disappear and we get 404 errors. We've downloaded a plug-in that me might try to see if that solves the problem.

The one good bit of news is that we may be able to retain all of the old urls which will ensure continuity and the handful of search engine rankings for this site.

Plenty happening across the many websites of the 21c Telecom group.

1. Best business phone deals

Lots of new pages being added, the latest of which deals with our business broadband offering.

2. UK Mobile Phone Deals

This website is currently being completely redeveloped. We are experimenting with the Joomla content management system to see whether that will help us make it easier for updates and more regular news/articles on this site. If it does work as we hope we may consider it for our main site when it is redeveloped in the New Year.

Whilst the actual content of the current pages can be retained the old URLs will disappear and we want to see what happens SEO-wise with this. We also want to see if the new Joomla URLs are SEO-friendly.

3. 21C Telecom

We try to update this every day during the working week with the latest news from the telecoms world. We also add pages as often as possible with resources such as FAQs and interesting articles.

4. 21C Vehicle Tracking

The new site dealing with vehicle tracking and device tracking is up and running and will shortly be added to with tracking related info and articles.

5. Business Mobile World

The latest blog posts have now been added to the home page. We try and update the business mobile blog at least once a day during the working week.

As you may know we have a number of websites within the telecoms arena. One of these, Best Business Phone Deals, has had a number of pages added today.

The pages added are:

• Business Phone Systems
• Business Phone Numbers
• Business Phone Lines
• Business Phone Services
• Business Phone Packages

This site gives a broad overview of the types of services we can offer rather than get bogged down in great detail. Every business is different and, as a consequence, the solutions that we offer are likely to differ in each case.

It is exactly the same within the business mobile world, two businesses who are neighbours in the same building will want different handsets and use them in very different ways dependent upon their business type.

Similarly the landline solutions for these companies would also likely differ based upon the number of employees, whether call traffic is mostly inbound or outbound, the numbers they are ringing (local, national, international) etc.

So rather than dryly listing a number of phone systems with all of their features, which only telephone system anoraks are likely to appreciate, we explain how we can help your business improve its communications and reduce costs and invite you to contact us for a free quote or review.

Business decision makers have nothing to lose by contacting us. For a few minutes of time your business could reduce its costs, improve communications and receive ongoing help and support including the integration of new technology as it becomes available.

Business Mobile World is a website in the 21c Telecom group. This comprises a number of websites dedicated to all forms of telecommunication.

The group started out in 1996 as Phone Direct providing business mobile phones. In 2008 the name changed to 21c Voice and Data to reflect the number of other services we can now provide to business customers. This includes:

• Business Mobiles
• Landline telephone systems/lines/calls
• Broadband
• Device and vehicle tracking
• Non geographic numbers
• VOIP telephone systems
• Mobile Broadband
• Phone call recording

Since 2008 other businesses and websites have been consolidated within the group and it continues to expand with the latest website launched this week.

Best business phone deals focusses primarily on business mobile phones and landline phones. It has been kept deliberately simple, just providing the basic idea of what can be offered without complicating matters. It makes it easy to get in touch with us to find out more.

Basically we can provide your business with a fully converged telecoms solution with bespoke tariffs, free hardware and seamless integration between the individual components. To put it simply, we will sort out your communications.

Don't hesitate to contact us for advice and quotes for any or all of our services.

We have updated the Business Mobile World home page with a new image detailing the benefits we can offer for business mobile users. These include:

• Free mobile phone handsets on the majority of our tariffs
• Free calls to UK landlines (01, 02, 03)
• A variety of inclusive minutes/texts and data packages
• Dedicated Account Manager (no call centres!)
• Expert advice and support
• Free no obligation quotes

Not to mention low cost tariffs for every business user from 1 mobile handset to 100 plus.

A quick phone call or email is all that is needed to get the ball rolling and find out if we could save your business money or you can fill out our enquiry form.

We look forward to hearing from you and saving your business money whilst improving its communications.

By the way, the phone in the image is a BlackBerry Storm. If you are looking for a BlackBerry solution we have BlackBerry trained engineers on site who can help you with installation and offer ongoing support. Just get in touch.

We have made some minor amendments to the website presentation today.

• we have slightly lightened the main text background
• reduced the letter spacing in the headings
• changed the font family for the headings
• changed the colour of the central divider
• changed the alignment of text from justified to left
• changed the text colour

Hopefully these changes have made the site more readable and easy to view.

If you have any suggestions for future improvements please contact us.

Similarly if you have any suggestions for content (eg. handset reviews, technical tips) please get in touch.

All enquiries are welcome whether for business mobiles, telecoms advice or general website information.