iPhone goes corporate: AT&T announces business plan
By Thomas Ricker 
posted Jan 21st 2008 3:07AM
posted Jan 21st 2008 3:07AM
Without a 3G iPhone announcement at MacWorld, Apple remains focused on increasing the penetration of their generation-one handset. True to the rumors circulating the intertubes last week, AT&T is now offering the iPhone to business customers. Plans break down as follows: - 2 year commitment, voice service, and data plan required
- $45 per month for unlimited data, visual voicemail, and 200 SMSes; $55 ups the SMS limit to 1,500; $65 for unlimited everything
- An extra $25 per month nabs a 20MB montly data plan good for 29 countries, $60 per month ups the limit to 50MB
- Activate by 31 March and qualified accounts will receive a service credit of $25 per month good through 31 December, 2008 -- yeah, that's a sweet deal
[Thanks, Brandon B.]
Sounds pretty good, I hope small businesses can get in on those rates too. :)
Once it seamlessly integrates with our corporate BlackBerry server, then we'll call it a business phone.
I don't think it needs to have BB capability - just connecting and sync'ing with Exchange would make it a business phone.
Explain to me again why I would want to pay $45 a month for a data plan with the same features as my current $20 a month data plan...
That's why they're offering the $25 discount until the end of this year.
Business data plans always cost more than consumer data plans because they expect businesses to use more data. Not to mention, before these new plans, iPhones were impossible to activate on a business account.