By Stephen Nellis
– T-Cellular US Inc mentioned on Thursday it was working with Apple Inc to supply a cell phone plan that may embrace backed iPhones and a set of paid providers from Apple aimed toward small-business house owners.
The deal will assist Apple with distribution of Enterprise Necessities, a paid service it began final 12 months for companies with small or non-existent IT departments who nonetheless have to handle fleets of iPhones and different Apple units for his or her employees. The Apple service, which ranges between $2.99 and $12.99 per 30 days per worker, lets a companies set up and replace apps and supply cloud storage to workers.
Beneath the brand new T-Cellular plan, which the service mentioned is accessible instantly, T-Cellular will cowl the price of an iPhone 13 for every of a enterprise’s workers and can bundle Enterprise Necessities along with T-Cellular’s wi-fi service. The price could also be as little as $50 per 30 days when an organization has six traces or extra on the plan.
T-Cellular mentioned the plan additionally consists of Wi-Fi protection on flights from American Airways, Delta Air Strains, and Alaska Airways, with United Airways coming later this 12 months.
“We constructed a plan round Apple Enterprise Necessities that offers small companies all the things that they’re going to want to maintain their workers linked,” Callie Area, president of T-Cellular’s enterprise group, mentioned in an interview.
The T-Cellular plan additionally consists of AppleCare+, Apple’s insurance coverage program that covers repairs or alternative for broken units.
T-Cellular is dealing with all buyer billing beneath the brand new deal, and the 2 firms declined say how a lot of the $50 month-to-month payment T-Cellular will move on to Apple.
Susan Prescott, Apple’s vp of enterprise product advertising and marketing, advised Reuters the iPhone maker’s purpose was to supply a marketing strategy that will streamline the method of shopping for and establishing units.
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