Business Choice 2023: The Best Mobile Phones and Service Providers in North America
Some people believe you can't get serious work done without an actual PC, but we're living in a mobile world now. Most of us are using our phones in some capacity for our jobs, even if only for email. But we've evolved far beyond the Blackberry: You can manage heavy-duty productivity on a phone, such as working on spreadsheets, writing, editing photos and video, and IT troubleshooting with a solid phone with reliable service.
It's been a couple of years since we surveyed our readership on their preferred mobile devices for work and the carriers that power them. For this year's Business Choice story, we're doubling down by also asking IT pros to weigh in on the phone brands and carriers they prefer to manage for their workforce, with assistance from our colleagues at Spiceworks(Opens in a new window) and its Aberdeen Strategy & Research(Opens in a new window) division (Disclosure: Spiceworks is owned by PCMag parent company Ziff Davis). We sent our questions north of the border too, to get the scoop on mobile phones and carriers from Canadians. Read on to learn about the best options for you and your team.
Providing the best of what T-Mobile's and US Cellular's networks have to offer, Google Fi has affordable plans as wells as perks including a VPN and end-to-end encryption. It also supports all phone manufacturers (though iPhone users won't get 5G).
Those with a preference for big carriers in the US make it clear that the best choice by far is T-Mobile. It scores particularly well ahead of rivals AT&T and Verizon for its choice of available phones, family-plan options, customer support, and especially, cost.
The mobile carriers rated for work likely match the consumer-oriented Readers' Choice picks because the
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