Summer Knowles: Hi, I'm Summer Knowles with sbtv.com and today we are going to be discussing cell phone plans and which ones is going to be the best fit for your business. Joining us right now is Dave Takushi, with wireless toy. Hi, how are you?
Dave Takushi: Good thanks.
Summer Knowles: So, tell us unlimited plan is that going to be the way to go for a best bet for most business owners right now.
Dave Takushi: Its where all going to depend on the person and how much the reason to phone, unlimited plans can save you money if you're using a lot of minutes. In the past-unlimited plans cost around $200.00 a months, anywhere can come from $100.00 or $200.00. Now you can get into unlimited plans that will include unlimited text messaging, unlimited minutes, some carriers even offer unlimited email and unlimited web browsing for as little as a $100.00 a month.
So if you're spending for one line more than an 100 hours a month a lot of times it can be a good deal in order to switch to that. But just because there is unlimited plans available for $100.00 it doesn’t mean its going to necessarily going to save you money, it just depends on what you use, what extra features you're paying for and what features the unlimited plan does come with.
Summer Knowles: So it sounds like they're about to do an assessment first to figure out where they are to decide which one is going to be best for them.
Dave Takushi: Exactly and you want to look you know what you're paying for on them and really do an assessment. And then also assess just because and unlimited plan might be right for you and what unlimited plan is right for you. there is different ones depending on the carries, most of them are right around in the price but each carrier has a little bit different flavor in what they include and we don’t always helps costumers you know we evaluate their needs and figure out, “Okay, based on what you're using this would be the unlimited plan for you”. Or it make sense in order to do you know a different option for you.
Summer Knowles: Okay, so let's talk about some of those other options it doesn’t have to be necessarily be an unlimited plan if it doesn’t work for them.
Dave Takushi: Right, I had a costumer recently we looked at he’s got about eight to 10 phones with the carrier and he was thinking you know “Maybe is should switch to an unlimited plan” well right now their on deploying plan. And what that means is that, if somebody has there maybe 10,000 minutes among all eight phone then maybe their sharing. Instead of one person used just 2,000 minutes and another person only uses 200 minutes as long as they stay below the 10,000 total minutes they're fine and they don’t have any extra fees.
So sometimes it makes more sense to stay on a deploying plan, he wasn’t using all that many extra minutes so it made more sense for him to stay on deploying plan rather than in an unlimited plan because he has some employees that you know were only using a couple of hundred minutes and so. If he needed a few hundreds extra he could just use theirs that they had extra of anyway.
Summer Knowles: Now, do you—those minutes were all over if they for some reason don’t hit that 10,000 market that’s what they're plan has.
Dave Takushi: Typically, with most of the deploying plans the minutes won’t roll over you, you start from scratch with you know on a new group of 10,000 minutes for the next month. So that’s why the assessment is so important because they’ve got a pretty much pinpoint on how much they using.
Summer Knowles: Exactly.
Dave Takushi: And we’ll look at a variety of the remains. We want to look at no just one month but we want to look over a few months and we also for different businesses you want to look at maybe their pick months maybe their summer months are busier, maybe their winter months are busier. So you don’t what to just look over the three winner months, if they're summer business and during landscaping or lawn caring and that’s where they use most of their minutes.
And the other things to keep in mind really too are that, you want to have enough minutes but you also don’t want to pay half of 12,000 if you're only using 9,000 a month. You want a little bit of a buffer for those busier months and some of the things you can do with the carriers this days is to even change plan at different times of the year. So maybe you need 10,000 minutes during the summer but maybe during the winter months you only need 5,000 minutes. Well depending on the carrier you're with, you might be able to change your plan without extending your contract so that you can save a couple of hundred dollars a month during the winter months when business is slower and you're not using the phones as much.
Summer Knowles: Okay, what about that prepaid plans?
Dave Takushi: Prepaid is an option available after also, depends on your business, depends on the person. If somebody is not using many minutes prepaid can be a good option at times. As well as it’s a predictable option, you can just buy a certain number of minutes and you don’t have to worry about ever using a lot more minutes than that because it shuts off for that point in time. However, a lot of times it’s nice with the deploying plans that you get unlimited calling between the other phones in your account.
So if you do have ten employees you know that all ten employees can call each other where is a lot of prepaid options don’t have that but prepaid can sometimes be a good option for temporary workers. Seasonal workers at times where you just want to set them up with the phone or not an permanent employee and so they have something that can just used during you know short amount of time, they might be working for you.
Summer Knowles: Now, which ones are tend to be a more popular do you think? Business really tending to use it, is it the unlimited, or the deploying, prepaid?
Dave Takushi: You know for the small business, for like one-person business I think and somebody who uses a lot of unlimited plan is a great option available for them. Because they can talk as much as they want, unlimited usage of it, never have to worry about you know a big bill. It can be just depends on how important the cell phone is to you and your business for somebody who is a real-estate agent. You know, kind of owns their own business there and an unlimited plan can be great because they got a lot of phone calls when they put ads out, or when they have signs in front of a house.
They don’t ever have to worry about using extra minutes. And a lot of people these days will have just their cell phone, they getting rid of their home phones or maybe they don’t need an office phone or maybe the office number is their cell phone number. So just having, you know, it might be a little bit more expensive to have an unlimited plan. But instead of paying two bills, you're just paying one bill, which is a cell phone bill, which is sometimes, and option to a lot of business owners, if they're starting to look at this days.
Summer Knowles: Okay, so just quick words of advice to them as the assessment is going to be crucial pretty much.
Dave Takushi: Yeah, the assessment is really the biggest thing to do just because and unlimited plans available and just because you’re paying you know more than you think you should pay every month doesn’t mean that you want to switch to an unlimited plan. Take a look, stop and to a store whatever, it might be, checkout a website if you want to at wirelesstoys.com and see if the plans that out there is going to be the best bet for you and set up and appointment with one of our wraps-do and we’ll go through. “Hey, and unlimited plans does makes sense or it doesn’t or let's look at deploying plan. And help you figure out in a quick fast passion what the best way to go is, so that you can save the most money in that spend extra money that you don’t need to in your cell phones.
Summer Knowles: All right thank you Dave.
Dave Takushi: Thank you.
Summer Knowles: And we will have additional information on the cell phone plans right here sbtv.com where small business is our only business.
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