Why Vodacom’s SIM-only offers make sense for business budgets.
A manager on a warehouse floor needs to send a WhatsApp about a stock issue. An administrator in HR is helping an employee get their payslip. A salesperson is about to close a great deal, but they need to access crucial documents from the office.
Business happens where you have an internet connection or can handle phone calls. Employees need a reliable connection to stay in touch and get things done. If business connectivity falls short, it affects their performance. Yet, if a business is not careful, it could overspend on contracts.
Business demands data
Modern business activities consume considerable amounts of data. For example, an hour-long video call on Teams, at 720p resolution, can use between 500MB and 1.5GB. A WhatsApp video call is a little leaner, but still data-demanding. If your employees use Slack, that can require around 6GB a month per user, assuming they don’t download big attachments. Email, one of the most common services, is tough to pin down, but average users will need at least 1GB a week to engage with emails and attachments.
Some of this load can go onto fibre or fixed 5G, and mobile internet can handle the rest. But it’s not always prudent to get a device contract for every person who needs mobile broadband. Fortunately, companies can instead get more from SIM-only deals.
The benefits of SIM-only
A SIM-only deal is a contract that provides a SIM card you can use in any compatible device. These deals offer several major benefits for small and medium businesses:
- Lower monthly cost: No handset repayment means lower rates.
- Better data and minute value: SIM-only contracts have very high data allocations for what you pay, and minutes are often unlimited.
- Keep current devices: Get more value for longer from business devices, and avoid unnecessary device upgrades. If the contract term is up, get a SIM-only deal and use the same device.
- Device choice: Buy phones and tablets outright or use refurbished devices.
- Easier budgeting: Avoid the uncertainty of prepaid mobile by planning around fixed contract fees.
- Flexible staffing: Add and remove SIM contracts as your employee pool changes.
Real value for your money
Device contracts are great because they provide a new handset or tablet as well. But a business doesn’t always need new devices as much as it requires reliable and affordable connectivity. It can use its purchasing power to select and maintain the right devices, then handle SIM economics separately.
Those SIM economics make sense. For example, Vodacom has great SIM-only offers:
- 55GB data (plus 30GB free) and unlimited minutes for R799* per month
- 110GB data (plus 30GB free) and unlimited minutes for only R999* per month.
- If you don’t need minutes, just data, the 200GB data SIM is a bargain at just R299* per month.
These SIMs power business phones, tablets, and other devices. They can connect devices used on the road, stock takes, or to gather customer surveys. They could even plug into a MiFi device and act as a backup when the office internet goes down.
Your business needs data, but you can stay in charge of those costs and manage your device inventory independently with SIM-only contracts.
See what deals Vodacom offers to your company and start getting more data for less.
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*Prices are subject to change.
