Web Worker Daily

Until recently, if you wanted to use an iPhone, you were by definition an individual user: there was no official corporate support from AT&T. That’s now changed, with the introduction of new iPhone plans directed specifically at “Corporate Responsibility Users” – AT&T speak for business customers.

As with an individual iPhone, business users must move an existing voice service (now one billed to the company, of course) and sign up for an Enterprise Data Plan. The data plans, which come in 200, 1500, and unlimited text message increments, are $25 a month higher than the identical individual plans across the board. But if you activate a new Enterprise Data Plan by March 31, they’ll give you a $25 per month credit through December 31, making the service the same cost for the rest of this year.

The new billing arrangements will make iPhone business usage more attractive to the accounting department, who won’t have to reimburse people every month for their individual phone bills. But they don’t do anything to address the other drawbacks of iPhones for corporate use that we recently discussed.