If you are planning on using your domestic cell or mobile phone service while traveling overseas, whether you travel for business or please, you can end up paying up to $5 per minute just to make or receive a call with exorbitant international roaming rates. It’s crazy that people still use their home service when [...]

Believe me, after promoting and selling business phone plans, business mobile phones and small business phone systems for the last 10 years, I’ve seen it all when it comes to frustrations experienced by customers (thankfully not our customers in general.) If businesses go on the wrong phone plan, they can end up with a phone [...]

I know people that travel overseas regularly for business and pleasure. I have told all of them to look at getting a Prepaid International SIM card before they go but almost all of them choose not to listen to me and then they get burned by exorbitant roaming charges. I tell them but they don’t [...]

Whether you are looking for a business phone or a smartphone for personal use, there are some things that you need to think about. When you purchase a business smartphone there is always the possibility of post purchase dissonace if you don’t think properly about what you are doing. Here are 10 thinks you need [...]

Come on everyone, it’s time to move out of the dark ages and give the team at Altitude Communications a call. It’s time to stop using that ratty old Nokia that can’t access the internet and has those small keys. It you are in business, you need a smart phone. Here are 1- reasons why [...]

The cloud is becoming more and more popular for business IT and telecommunications infrastructure. Optus Smart Safe, purchased through Altitude Communications, allows users to access files from any PC with internet access and their mobile phone. Never be caught short again. Optus Smart Safe can be used to back up business e-mails, invoices, financial documents, [...]

For anyone who frequently travels, communication through mobile phones is really important. No matter where you may be I the world, you really need to have a mobile phone ready to take in and make calls. However, not all SIM cards that you use in your local territory would work in other countries. If they [...]

I’ve often mentioned the value of a smart phone for international travellers. If you are going overseas you absolutely need to get a smart phone and an International SIM card. Also, WiFI and Skype can make your life easier. With a WiFI enabled phone yo ucan check your emails easily and with Skype you can [...]

I travel quite frequently, at least once a year but usually more, and for both business and pleasure. I’ve made some mistakes when packing and I have learned a lot. What really taught me about packing to travel and working out what was important was when I went trekking through the mountains of Papua New [...]

I’ve said it before and I will keep shouting it from the hilltops, your smart phone is more than just emails and telephone calls. Here are some example apps you may want to look at: ABBYY Business Card Reader- allows users to transfer contact information from business cards directly to the mobile address book by [...]