iPhone plans for small business

I was driving home today and it occurred to me that there aren’t really a huge amount of iPhone plans dedicated to small business.

First of all, why does an iPhone even suit small business use? I’m just going to rattle off a few reasons (there are many more!):

Easy access to mail (without requiring Microsoft Exchange)
Great productivity apps! (Remember the Milk & Evernote to name a couple)
Skype from your iPhone with Fring
Plenty of fun apps that are sure to provide good stress relief
Employees can pimp out their iPhones without being charged to the company phone bill, with apps being bought using their own personal iTunes accounts.
Super easy sync with a Mac computer inc. calendars, contacts, photos
In-built GPS to help find your way to your next appointment
Google Reader to make it easy to catch up on industry-related news on the go
Anywhere internet access (within 3G coverage). This has proved to be super handy for me
They’re the coolest phone out – your employees will _LOVE_ receiving one!

What would the ideal iPhone plan be for small business consist of?

3-10 mobile user plan
Unlimited callling and SMS (for all phone numbers)
Handset credit to at least offset the cost of the iPhone per user
A shared download cap (6-10gb between the fleet?). This would be cool as heavy-users could use up more of the cap
an App made available by your telco so you could easily monitor your plan usage, stats. etc.

So come on Aussie telco’s – I’m talking to you Vodafone, Telstra, Optus & Three – what have you got to show us? I’m awaiting patiently to see what sort of plans 2009 will bring us.

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