BT Offers 4G To Business Mobile Customers As Standard

BT is now offering 4G to its business mobile customers ahead of a wider consumer launch in April 2015.

New BT Business customers will receive access to LTE and BT Wi-Fi’s network of five million UK hotspots when they sign-up, while existing customers will get the new benefits when they re-sign.

Individual plans, data plans and shared bundles will be offered, with customers able to take SIM-only plans or choose from a range of handsets. Additional ‘mobile extra’ add-ons can also be purchased for extra needs, such as international roaming.

BT Business 4G

BT says 4G will make enterprises more flexible by allowing workers to access large files and cloud-based applications wherever they are, improving productivity.

“Our research shows that 24 percent of employees now work regularly out of the office,” says BT Business CEO Graham Sutherland. “As part of our strategy to offer a portfolio that provides value for money and meets the changing needs of businesses, we’ve designed our new mobile plans to cater for this.

“Our new plans give customers the connectivity they need to help them stay productive when out and about, along with the flexibility to choose a plan that suits their way of working.”

BT mobility push

BT’s national network is powered by a Mobile Virtual Network Operator (MVNO) agreement with EE signed earlier this year, replacing a previous deal with Vodafone. The company has offered mobile services to its employees and businesses for some time, but is now preparing a more significant push.

Last month, it announced the cloud-based One Phone unified communications offering that claims to offer all the benefits of a landline on a mobile device, while there are plans for consumer mobile services from next year.

BT exited the market after it sold O2 to Telefonica in 2005, but was a surprise bidder in the Ofcom 4G auction of spectrum last year and it won 2.6GHz bandwidth at a cost of £186.5 million, although its plans for this bandwidth are not known The 2.6GHz band has limited range, but high capacity, making it ideal for densely populated urban areas, but less useful for a national network.

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