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As of 13 August 2026, AI can compare business mobile deals.
This still needs a person who signs their name to it.
Can you do it?
15 minutesto a draft.
30 minutesto something you’d act on.
Cost, all in£0
Skill neededchat-fluent
Who has to check ityou
What the alternative costsThe available tool data gives no price for a human procurement alternative.
If this goes wrong: you select a contract with an overlooked minimum term, coverage limitation or usage charge and the business pays for the mistake.
What to actually do
Hand it to a person
The route this page recommends
A person who owns the outcome does this end to end, worth it when the failure is dear.
Use a tool built for this
Second choiceDo it yourself
The distant thirdA chat interface, chat-fluent skill, and roughly 30 minutes until you can act on the result.
How to actually do it
- Open the supplier quote, tariff, contract summary and any recent business mobile bill, then gather the pages or files for every deal you are considering.
- Write down the number of connections, typical data use, call and text use, required locations, roaming needs, handset preference, contract length and your buying priorities.
- Paste the prompt into a chatbot and attach the source documents, replacing each bracketed slot with your business requirements.
- Ask the chatbot to produce the comparison table with a source page or section beside every material figure and term.
- Compare the drafted table against each original quote and bill, correcting every charge, allowance, VAT label, contract term and calculation that does not match.
- Contact each shortlisted supplier to confirm current coverage, availability, eligibility, price-change rules, early termination charges, roaming and any unclear or missing term.
- Send the verified comparison and supplier replies to the person authorised to approve the contract, then record the chosen deal and the evidence supporting it.
Prompt
Compare the business mobile deals in the documents and data below for a UK business. Use only facts stated in the supplied material and do not fill gaps from memory or guesswork. Business requirements: - Number of users or connections: [number] - Expected monthly data per user: [details] - Expected calls and texts: [details] - Required locations and travel areas: [locations] - Need for roaming: [details] - Preferred contract length: [details] - Need for handsets or SIM-only: [details] - Priorities, in order: [for example lowest total cost, coverage, flexibility, support] For each deal, extract and compare: monthly charge, one-off charges, VAT treatment, handset cost, data allowance, call and text allowance, roaming terms, network, contract length, minimum term, renewal terms, price-change terms, early termination charges, fair-use limits, setup or activation fees, support terms, and any eligibility or credit conditions. Show the source document and page or section for every material figure or term. Calculate totals only where the documents provide enough information. Label each total as including or excluding VAT, state the period covered, and show the calculation. Do not estimate missing usage or charges. Mark unknown, ambiguous or conflicting information clearly. Produce: 1. A comparison table. 2. The lowest stated cost for each relevant period, without treating it as the best deal automatically. 3. The main operational and contractual differences. 4. A shortlist ranked against my stated priorities, with a reason tied to the evidence. 5. Questions to send each supplier before signing. 6. A final section called "Checks I must do myself" covering current coverage at my locations, live availability, eligibility, credit terms, VAT, price changes, cancellation rights and any term you could not verify. Do not recommend a deal where a missing or ambiguous term could change the ranking. Say exactly what evidence would resolve it.
Open it prefilled in ChatGPT or Claude, or copy it into Gemini, which takes no prefill link.
What it gets wrong
- AI cannot confirm current network coverage, stock, eligibility or a supplier's live price without reliable current evidence.
- AI cannot resolve a vague fair-use clause or hidden termination condition that the supplier has not explained.
- AI cannot know whether the cheapest deal meets the needs of every employee and location.
- AI does not carry the financial responsibility for the contract you sign.
- AI can misread a table, apply VAT inconsistently or compare different contract periods unless you check the source documents.
Even on a YES, the friction has a name: real time truth, verification cost and stakes of error.
How we scored this
Five axes, each scored nought to two by hand: ten means AI carries the task cleanly, and the thresholds that turn a total into YES, PARTLY or NO are published in the methodology. Each axis name links to its definition.
| Axis | Score (0–2) |
|---|---|
| Output | 2 |
| Inputs | 2 |
| Verification | 1 |
| Liability | 1 |
| Effort delta | 2 |
| Total | 8 / 10 |
The methodology and its thresholds are published in full.
FAQ
- Can AI compare mobile phone contracts for my business?
- Yes. Give it the supplier quotes, your usage requirements and your priorities, and it can extract the terms and create a first-pass comparison. Check the result against the original documents and confirm live coverage, availability and contract conditions with each supplier.
- What information does AI need to compare business mobile deals?
- Provide every quote or contract summary, recent bills if relevant, the number of users, expected data use, call and text needs, locations, roaming requirements, handset preference and preferred contract length. Also state whether lowest cost, coverage, flexibility or support matters most.
- Can AI tell me which business mobile deal is cheapest?
- It can calculate and compare stated charges when the documents give the needed figures and contract periods. It cannot safely rank deals where VAT, price changes, usage charges, roaming, termination fees or minimum terms are missing or unclear.
- Should I trust an AI comparison of business mobile deals?
- Use it as a structured analysis, not as the final authority. Check every material figure against the source documents and ask suppliers to confirm current coverage, eligibility, availability and any term that could change the decision.
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Assessed by gpt-5.6-luna (gpt-5.6-luna) on 2026-08-13, second-checked by an independent model. Wrong somewhere? Email [email protected] and it gets re-checked.
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