Report: Unfettered Communication Key to Mobile Productivity 

 There is a proven way a business can boost its productivity without great financial outlay: ensure that employee’s communications tools are reliable, easy to use and affordable. Also, crucially, there should be no artificial barriers in the way of their use. 

That last point might sound obvious, but the fact is that many companies tie the hands of their employees when they travel abroad on business by ordering virtual radio silence on their company cell phones for reasons of cost. 

Radio silence 

In a survey of 1100 businesspeople, US-based market researchers International Data Corporation found that 28% of respondents were, by corporate decree, asked to "curtail mobile usage when working internationally". A full 17% percent were ordered never to use their company mobile devices while abroad. 

But it's communicating with customers, including internal ones, that lets people project their company's values and products, empathize with their problems and jointly arrive at answers that suit both sides. So, cell phone-use-limiting pressures are a great way to kill networking, innovation and productivity all in one fell swoop. 

The Importance of international connectivity  

Data Corporation’s survey gave the following impact-analysis on the effect of having access to data while working internationally:  

But even those who can use smartphones and devices abroad, there’s the issue of having to carry multiple phones loaded with different SIMs for different regions. This adds to the logistical load. Is the right gadget charged up? Do the SIMs have enough minutes? It all distracts from doing business. 

Unrestricted roaming with eSIM 

There is another way. Thanks to patented technology and the striking of managed network contracts with cell phone service providers around the world, 1GLOBAL lets its users roam around the world with a single embedded SIM (eSIM) in their own phone. It's a global service that feels local, and each user can have up to eight numbers that function like local numbers to customers in their own countries. 

Before 1GLOBAL, I would have to carry a UK phone and a US phone, frequently with one on and one off. But with 1GLOBAL I now just carry one phone.

I know that customers in the US and UK can now get directly through to me, which is phenomenal. And the savings are substantial.

Andy WincelPresident of Western Pegasus [Transatlantic precision components]  

If you wish to find out more about how our international mobile plans can improve your business' overseas communications, and save you money, request a callback from 1GLOBAL today, and be sure to visit our business mobile phone plans pages.