If you haven't yet embraced the smartphone phenomenon, now might be a good time to do so. Statistics indicate that they're becoming more popular for everyday uses, and in the business world, as well.
Steve Cooper reports, "A recent study from In-Stat found that 8 percent of regular business travelers have ditched their land lines and rely solely on their mobile phones." This makes good sense - mobile phones can travel, land lines can't, and mobile phones charge quickly enough that there should be few concerns about staying available.
Cooper continues, "Networking via smartphone is also bringing people together. Established networks like LinkedIn, Facebook and Friendster are joining the mobile social network." So you can "friend" people immediately after meeting them, rather than try to remember their contact info until the next time a computer is nearby.
Add in the basic requirement of having some sort of mobile phone, and there's little reason not to upgrade to a proper smartphone. RIM, Apple, and Google, in particular, are making this a more attractive option on an almost monthly basis.
Just be careful of the data plans, as signing up for too generous or too tight a service agreement is unwise.
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VoIP & Pitfalls of Data Plans
Doug,
Another interesting and relevent article.
What we have noticed is that increasingly our clients are using VoIP to allow them to have fully portable numbers that do not incur the massive costs of using mobile phones for business.
In fact calls between the office and employees (often a large business cost for small businesses that do not run call outbound call centres) are usually free! Even calls to mobile are much cheaper when using VoIP.
Logical IT can also assist with call centre solutions for businesses looking to reduce outbound phone marketing costs without making a sacrifice in call quality (or service quality by outsourcing overseas)
The increase of wireless broadband services means that basically anywhere you can get a decent internet connection speed you can have the full benefit of a PBX system meaning that you can forward calls back to the office or have calls diverted to your mobile office from your companies main reception point.
Also the systems we use allow voicemails left on your number to be forwarded to email allowing our customers to 'see at a glance' any missed calls without the tedium of checking your voicemail every 10 minutes. Your point about the cost of mobile broadband and data access plans is very relevent and the Telcos are very clever at using ambiguous customer propositions to confuse potential users.
Logical IT is an Australian based online seller of computer equipment and a specialist mobile office solutions provider. We are always happy to assist our customers with information and explain the vagueries of mobile broadband data plans and business mobile caps.
Logical IT can also assist with enquiries relating to SEO and SEM and provides a variety of repair and installation services.
For more information please visit our website: http://www.logicalit.com.au or shoot me an email to: sales@logicalit.com.au
Cheers
Alex
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