Best Business Cell Phone

$30 - $45 per Month No Contracts

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Requirements

Reach Your Customers with Great Coverage

You employees need to be able to reach your customers at all times. Straight Talk’s coverage is provided by Verizon which is supposed to have the best network in the continental United States.

Control Costs.

Your monthly costs would be predictable under either Straight Talk’s $30 every 30 days plan for 1000 minutes and 1000 messages or just $45 every 30 days for unlimited minutes and messages. You can get a lot of business done with unlimited minutes if your using your phone to get your work done.

Cancel Anytime with No Contracts

Straight Talk plans have an auto-refill option. You can have it set to charge your business credit card every 30 days, so you get maximum use out of your minutes, and you can cancel it anytime with no termination fees.

Get Tons of Daytime Minutes

The best business cell phone plan must have are daytime minutes, and lots of them. The 1000 minutes under the $30 plan are all anytime minutes. That works out to about 50 minutes per weekday, or 33 counting all days. If that’s not enough, go for the unlimited plan.

Always be On Message

In addition to voicemail, you can send and receive text and picture messages with no problem. If a lot of text messages are sent, then get the Samsung R451C with qwerty keyboard.

And Check Email

Straight Talk is that you can only check email via Yahoo, Hotmail or Gmail accounts. You can easily set up those services to retrieve email from other standard email account that offers a POP interface. So if you can check your email with Outlook, you can also see it on your Straight Talk phone. Also, if you actually have your business web site and email via Yahoo's web hosting, then you’re all set, too.

Get more done with Bluetooth

You may want the cell phones to be compatible with Bluetooth headsets so that your employees can have their hands free as they type on their keyboards or scribble on their notepads.

Note that using a Bluetooth headset while driving is still dangerous, and the best business cell phone policy would be to discourage or ban the use of cell phones while driving.

Conference with your Customers

Most prepaid or no-contract cell phones also accommodate conference calling. Minutes are counted for each extra person, so a three-way conference calls will use up twice the number of minutes. No problem if you've got the unlimited plan.

Track Results not Calls

One disadvantage of prepaid or no-contract phones is that you will not be able to get a paper call history. You have to keep a list of your recent call on the phone itself. You have to rely on and trust your own call logs.

You can turn this into an advantage by making your system is results-based rather than activity-based, and this won't be a problem.

Mobile-to-Mobile

Do your employees mainly use their cell phone to call customers or each other. If they make a lot of planning or project-related calls to each other while out of the office, then your choice for the best business cell phone might be something from T-Mobile, AT&T GoPhone, or Verizon, perhaps on their no-contract plans.

Overall, though, the advantage of Straight Talk is that you get a lot of minutes and messages at a very low cost, and you even get to . . .

Choose a Good Phone

The LG290C slider phone offers a decent camera and Bluetooth.

Any one of these handsets could be your choice for the best business cell phone. In fact, the LG100C for $29.99 is a great option for tapping into these great rates.

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