Consumer / Business Phone Contracts?

[Punx0r]

I'm looking to get a Blackberry for work. Confusingly, there seems to be business tariffs as well as consumer ones for phones and I can't find any handy guide explaning the main differences (and catches) between the two. Is it "allowed" to use a consumer phone for business? Anything I should be aware of with a business tariff?

I'd just go around the shops asking but I know they'll lie to me

[listie]

I have my blackberry using o2 business http://businessshop.o2.co.uk/tariff_ind ... groupid=23
it's a 24 month contract, which is best for you depends on what you will use your phone for, email web etc

HTH

[Punx0r]

The most important thing is to be able to use email on the move.

The "Best for Business with BlackBerry Unlimited" , small business, frequent user looks goood. Although I'm not sure what the difference is to the "My Business for BlackBerry" tariff down at the bottom.

I'm not sure what the deal is with "users", is that if you want different numbers on the same phone?

I'm also not sure what the voice subscription is, doesn't sound like voicemail.

Crap! I've just looked at the second page and there's about a dozen different handsets to choose from!

[Ritchie]

Not sure, but Voice subscription may be to enable the device to work as a phone. The blackberry users we have here, have thier blackberry as a mobile e-mail and diray managment device, and then carry a mobile phone as a seperate device (then some of them also carry a 3g USB mobile broadband thingy as well) nothing like an all in one soultion.....

[Punx0r]

Feck, it's got to be a phone too!

I really didn't think this would be this complicated...

[listie]

Feck, it's got to be a phone too!

I really didn't think this would be this complicated...

Dont worry it's not, all i did was call o2 up said what i needed and got a recommeded package, before i committed to it I checked and it was the best deal, I would suggest you do the same.

The number of uses, is if you have say 4 people with work phones they will all be on the same account and same tariff, you would get one bill not 4 every month

O2 is free voice mail, and you dont get charged any extra for calls, it is a phone after all!!!!