Saving on Roaming Fees

Wednesday, August 10th, 2011 Karen Ambrose Hickey, Editor

How to Beat Roaming Fees While Traveling Abroad by Michelle Higgins, in the NYTimes, gives some tips on some ways to control costs.

Carriers have made some efforts to inform and help you control costs, but here are some more tips from the article:

• Use Wi-Fi on your smartphone, and IT wants you too. It’s cheap and often faster.
• Consider data packages (with some US examples)
• Rent a Wi-Fi device (ship to your hotel!)
• Get more out of your data package

Read more and get the details >>

And, last year, we posted a video from one of our product managers that overheard IT people talking about a $27,000 roaming bill.

[photo courtesy of nytimes.com Francisco Caceres]

 

Tags: cost management, MiFi, mobile workforce, wi-fi access