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Corporate users rejoice: the iPhone is now an option

by Scott McNulty Jan 22nd 2008 at 4:30PM

The biggest challenge I encountered when lobbying for an iPhone at work wasn't the price, or the fact that is only kinda sorta supports Exchange (IMAP, I love you, but you are no ActiveSync) but rather it was bureaucratic in nature. There was simply no way to buy an iPhone using a corporate account. I got around this by buying the iPhone myself, and paying the monthly bill myself (aren't I clever?).

Luckily for well heeled corporate drones everywhere AT&T has announced Enterprise plans for the iPhone. The rates are pretty much the same, but the beauty is that some faceless, soulless corporation will be footing the bill for you (ain't capitalism grand?).

Thanks, Chris.


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Scott

To get your corp discount you have to go to:

http://wireless.att.com/discounts

There you will enter your work email address and wireless number to be validated for the xx% discount you get from your employer.

Oh, and You're Welcome!

January 22 2008 at 10:34 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
xxdesmus

"iPhone is now an option".

No. No. It's not.

No Exchange support. No centralized IT administrative app. No password strength policies. No remote wipe. etc, etc, etc...it still has a long ways to go.

January 22 2008 at 10:26 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Drupa

I cannot use the iPhone because of the painfully slow EDGE network. My Verizon EVDO phone and / or PCI card enable me to download FILES exponentially faster than the iPhone. I can't go back to dial-up speeds. Don't get me wrong - I really want an iPhone, but not this one. Hopefully there is data friendly hardware on the horizon.

January 22 2008 at 9:21 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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OlsonBW

"Drupa said...
I cannot use the iPhone because of the painfully slow EDGE network. My Verizon EVDO phone and / or PCI card enable me to download FILES exponentially faster than the iPhone. I can't go back to dial-up speeds. Don't get me wrong - I really want an iPhone, but not this one. Hopefully there is data friendly hardware on the horizon."

It sounds like you have never actually used an iPhone. There are lots of reports that it is actually faster than your phone for accessing data.

January 23 2008 at 1:29 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Michael Hodges

not without clipboard support for copy/paste/cut either

January 22 2008 at 8:27 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
mdecaro

Will they add support for enterprise WPA2 encryption for wireless?

January 22 2008 at 8:09 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
frankmjr

I have to say, my opinion of intrigue on the news story quickly changed to "dude you're doing it wrong" as I read the bits on corporate types and capitalism.

I'm sure they were only made light heartedly but this point is made in nearly in every sentence in the last paragraph :O

In any case, I enjoy capitalism, it made my Mac.

Good Day

January 22 2008 at 7:37 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Able-X

Give us blackberry connect support and exchange connectivity and we'll start to THINK about it, but the requirement of iTunes adds yet another layer of complication to the issue that us in IT don't want to deal with.

January 22 2008 at 5:19 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
superpixel

yeah, email is still an issue (2-pane viewing notwithstanding), and then there's the warm fuzzy feeling IT dept's get when they can remotely lock down a phone when lost or stolen. until you get security, education and email down, corp. IT will resist this like the Amiga

January 22 2008 at 5:15 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Colin

I'm having problems with this Corporate Plan. I qualified and am at the site but whenever I choose the $33.99 voice plan (15% off the regular price), it says now choose a data plan and then I choose it and it says "By selecting an iPhone data add-on plan, you will lose the service discount for this line."
So then I end up paying $39.99 for the voice plan because I lose the 15% discount. Can someone inform me of what I'm doing wrong? Thanks

January 22 2008 at 5:09 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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FunkyTang

I saw that problem as well. So, today if you buy an iPhone with a corporate discount, there is no discount on data and there is no discount on voice unless you don't buy a data plane. AT&T web morons couldn't program their way out of an iPhone shopping bag.

January 22 2008 at 6:27 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Colin

You think it's an error on their part? I doubt it, but hope so.

January 22 2008 at 7:21 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
dasilvetz

i wonder if this means that we can now also get our corporate discount back for iPhone plans (generally about 20%)

January 22 2008 at 5:06 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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