Going overseas can be an expensive call
The Australian Financial Review “Business Travel” Special Report – 28 February 2008
Mobile phones are essential but that doesn’t mean you should pay huge charges when venturing abroad, writes Simon Sharwood.
Mobile phones are a modern miracle, but never more so than when business travellers step off a plane in a foreign land, switch on their handset and find that their office is as accessible from Morocco as it is from Melbourne.
“A client of ours had two staff in Laos who were using their mobiles for a little web browsing,” says Tony Simmons, managing director of telecommunications broker, The Full Circle Group. “It was costing them $2800 a month because the local telco charged $80 every time they connected to the network.
