Work Globally, Roam Locally

Mobile Enterprise has published my article, "Work Globally, Roam Locally," my best advice for staying connected while traveling without going bankrupt.

Foreign SIM cards are the luggage stickers of the new millennium. A traveling executive runs up roaming charges averaging $693.50 per international trip, according to a study by Harris Interactive. That's equal to a year's worth of domestic wireless use. Multiply that by recurring travel for dozens, hundreds or thousands of employees in the age of globalized business, and the problem is clear. At the same time, there's also a clear value to being able to communicate with the home office from anywhere in the world, measurable in the improved productivity and real-time access to crucial information that can result in well-informed decisions and lucrative business deals.