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According to a recent survey published by the BBC, Britons spend more time using smartphones and accessing the internet than they do sleeping. They reported that we are spending over £2 billion pounds a year upgrading to the latest handsets with the average user upgrading every two years. The average life of a handset is much longer so it will come as no surprise that bosses are looking at ways of retaining handsets for longer to avoid the ever-increasing staff mobile bill.

New iPhone

The new iPhone 6 is being advertised as bigger than bigger. Described by TechRadar as "one of the best mobile phones Apple has ever created” it has a new design and a host of new features.

Cost

In terms of cost you are looking at £539 for the 16GB version, £619 for the 64GB option and £699 for the 128GB model. On a contract these start at around £45 per month, with roughly £100 for the phone up front.

Consumers have been moving towards SIM-only mobile deals for a few years and now UK SMEs are jumping on the bandwagon. Why?

1.SIM only. Breaks the tethering of airtime and handset contracts.

A recent survey by Swan Independent Research suggests that half of SMEs would talk to their local IT supplier when considering communications purchases however very few of them sell and support the products their customers are interested in.

In Swan Independent Research’s August 2014 survey into Business Communications solutions, satisfaction with their mobile contract scored almost the lowest, beaten only by satisfaction with the overall cost of office communications.