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Device as a Service – The advantages of smartphone rental

Smartphones are now part of your employees’ everyday tools. And smartphones are no longer just for making phone calls. Demands are increasing in line with technological innovations. Reading emails, sending contracts, optimizing and uploading presentations, and video conferencing are now part of everyday business and form the basis of internal and external communication in a successful company.

Would you like to meet the requirements of digitalization and equip your employees with company cell phones, but find the investment in a smartphone fleet too high? Then find out everything you need to know about the advantages of smartphone rental here.

The first challenge when purchasing company cell phones is choosing the form of financing.

Traditional procurement methods such as direct purchase, subsidization, or smartphone leasing often reach their limits when it comes to large mobile phone fleets. For this reason, TKD offers its customers Managed Phone – Device as a Service. Our detailed list of all the advantages of smartphone rental for businesses is designed to help you make the right choice when procuring your devices.

Your benefits

  1. Capex to Opex – Advantage for your equity ratio
    Leases do not appear on your company’s balance sheet! They are only part of the profit and loss statement and therefore have no influence on the company’s debt ratio. Your equity ratio remains unencumbered and ensures creditworthiness for future investments.
  2. Planning security through fixed monthly rates
    By signing up for the Device as a Service offer, the user secures a fixed monthly rate. This allows you, as the lessee, to calculate the costs incurred precisely. The rate negotiated once remains stable and creates planning security.
  3. Flexible terms
    Depending on your personal needs and requirements, rental agreements can be concluded for different terms. A rental period of only 12 months is just as possible as a longer-term contract of 36 months. While employees who use their smartphones or tablets exclusively for private purposes usually get by with low data volumes and free minutes, commercial contracts for smartphones generally require significantly higher and more complex services. Therefore, the services of mobile phone contracts can be adjusted at any time. With the TKD Managed Mobility Service, we support you in flexibly adjusting your contracts. Options can be added or removed individually. You will receive regular reports with information about possible contract optimizations – always to your advantage.
  4. Sustainability and environmental protection
    By signing up for the Device as a Service offer, you are making a significant contribution to the sustainability of your company. Our long-term rental models are sustainable and resource-efficient. TKD supports you in sustainably improving your carbon footprint. All rental devices that are still marketable are integrated into a second life cycle. Defective and unusable devices are certified by our partners for recycling in order to recover valuable raw materials and precious metals and reintroduce them into the market. In this way, you make a significant contribution to improving the sustainability of your mobile corporate communications.
  5. Always up to date with the latest technology
    Thanks to the limited term of TKD Managed Phone, your employees are always equipped with the latest smart devices. At the end of the rental agreement, the smartphones are simply returned to TKD and new models with the latest technology are made available to you. DIN-certified deletion of old devices is an essential part of the return process. This means you also benefit from technological progress. Current models are generally better suited to the needs of businesses. Innovative technologies offer companies security and service guarantees. Choose TKD’s Device as a Service offering and stay up to date.
  6. No expensive repairs
    Since smartphones are usually returned shortly after the end of their useful life under the rental agreement, there is no need to worry about expensive repairs due to wear and tear. Technical defects on all smartphones are repaired under the 24-month warranty. We even extend the 12-month warranty on all Apple products to 24 months for you. In addition, our TKD LifeCycle Management can be booked together with TKD Managed Phone. With our Replace & Repair service, we keep your communications up and running even in the event of loss or self-inflicted defects. Thanks to well-organized hardware pooling, you always have access to replacement devices that are quickly ready for use thanks to data transfer. 24-hour replacement only with TKD.
    Reduce employee downtime due to defects and damage!
  7. No problems with sales
    Purchasing a fleet of smartphones usually involves selling the old devices. Whether the fleet is sold to private individuals or a dealer, it involves a considerable amount of effort. Companies never get the maximum possible price when selling their old devices. Avoid this risk with TKD Managed Phone and contact us for more information. Your smartphones are simply and securely returned to us at the end of the contract period, and sensitive data is certified deleted.
    This allows you to avoid tedious price negotiations for your smartphones.

Secure monetary benefits and save on taxes! – Smartphone rental for your company

Whether cell phones, tablets, computers, or business data processing software:

Now even more attractive from a tax perspective! Employers can provide their employees with tax-free data processing and telecommunications devices for business use. The ratio between professional and private use of your employees’ company cell phones is irrelevant! The company must simply be registered as the lessee for the rented device. This saves the employer the wage costs for the respective employee – leaving the employee with more net income.

Let our staff advise you now on our Device as a Service offering.

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