Business Mobiles in Aberdeen

What is different about business mobiles in Aberdeen

Aberdeen is the one place in our patch where the coverage question comes before the tariff question. Crews rotate offshore and out to Dyce, Portlethen and the Aberdeenshire coast, and the network that works in the city centre is not always the one that works at the harbour or on the road north. That is the argument for putting the estate on an account that spans EE, O2 and Vodafone rather than standardising on one: an individual connection can move to whichever network actually works where that person works, without you taking on a second supplier or a second bill.

The other Aberdeen pattern is the rotation itself. Somebody offshore for three weeks does not need the same allowance as somebody in the office, and a fleet sized for the busiest month is a fleet you overpay for through the quiet ones. Shared data across the account rather than a bundle per handset is usually the fix, and it is worth setting from an itemised bill rather than a guess about who travels.

Questions we get asked in Aberdeen

Our crews rotate offshore. Can we pause or reduce those connections between trips?

Not usually paused, but that is rarely the right answer anyway — shared data across the account means an offshore handset simply stops drawing from the pool while it is idle, and somebody else uses it. That is cheaper than juggling suspensions and it avoids the reconnection admin every time a rotation changes at short notice.

Coverage is poor at one of our Aberdeenshire sites. Do we have to change supplier?

No. That is the reason to be on a multi-network account rather than a single one. We can move the connections at that site onto whichever of EE, O2 or Vodafone performs there, while the rest of the estate stays where it is, and the whole thing stays on one bill with one account manager. Worth checking the site with a signal test rather than a coverage map first.