Monday, September 21, 2009

Data Roaming Transparency

Data Roaming Tariff Transperency
As a frequent traveller, data usage in the roaming environment often tends to surprise, given that unlike voice and SMS transactions one cannot easily associate volume of chatter to usage and costs. Real time updates while roaming on data usage would really help manage bill shocks in this regard. As an end user, I would welcome every such initiative that helps me manage my usage and consequent spends. and corporations seeking to manage costs would be delighted to be able to assign data roaming usage thresholds for every employee on the road :-)

The good news being that this is now possible with solutions available like these http://www.roamware.com/solutions_roaming_cse.html

Seamless Prepaid Roaming Top Up's


Imagine a world where you could top up prepaid roaming phone subscription from Delhi while in Dublin, from Beijing in Bogotá and from Manila in Mexico City. A world where one could walk into any prepaid top up store anywhere in the world and recharge your prepaid subscription from anywhere while roaming. Food for thought :-)