Staying in Touch, Maria Bekiaris – Money Magazine, November 2009, p. 60
Money Magazine explores the money-saving options for staying in touch when you’re travelling overseas
Jetlag, your credit card statement, and washing that badly needs to be done is the norm for most people returning from an overseas holiday. But there might be more bad news – the size of your phone bill. If you don’t go prepared you might find a bill in the hundreds – and even thousands – waiting for you....
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Australian travellers can expect to be slugged between $500 to $1000 on their next trip overseas, just for using their mobile phone.
Mobile roaming is now reportedly the third highest cost for overseas travellers, after airfares and accommodation. “This is a ridiculous situation to find ourselves in for a basic service”, said Danny Nathanson, CEO of BackChat Mobile. “The mark-ups charged by the major carriers to Australian customers when they roam overseas are outrageous.”
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BackChat Mobile is pleased to announce that it is now a partner in the Charter for Safe Travel, a joint initiative between the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) and the Australian travel industry.
Under this Charter we recognise our shared commitment to assisting Australians overseas to travel safely.
Below are 10 travel tips from the Smart Traveller website http://smartraveller.gov.au/index.html for you to review and consider before travelling overseas.
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When travellers return home, being knocked out by jetlag is nothing compared to opening their mobile phone bill. Bills in the hundred, and even thousand of dollars are common for mobile roaming.
BackChat Mobile, Australia's leading provider of mobile roaming solutions, has released its Mobile Roaming Index showing that mobile roaming charges continue to increase as an alarming rate. Over the past two years the cost of making a call while overseas has increased by a massive 20%, and the cost...
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When it comes to understanding the mechanics of Roaming SIM cards, a lot of people look past the basics. Essentially, a Roaming SIM card constitutes any SIM card that can function on more than one network within a country. There are two applications of Roaming SIM, the first is least cost call routing for mobile calls and the second is from machine to machine. The primary function of an international sim card is to cut the costs of international mobile phone calls in half. If you’re...
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COMMUNICATIONS Minister Stephen Conroy's hopes of delivering cheaper international roaming rates for Australian consumers appear destined to stumble on regulatory hurdles.
In its submission to a parliamentary inquiry the consumer watchdog has described high international mobile roaming charges for Australians as an "intractable problem".
The submission was one of 15 that mobile carriers and consumer protection groups lodged with the House of Representatives standing committee on...
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BackChat Mobile has launched its ground breaking new product, GlobalSIM a pre paid international roaming service for travelers which does not incur exhorbitant global roaming costs and enables you to receive calls for free in over 50 countries.
Founder and CEO, Danny Nathanson said, “BackChat will revolutionise global roaming. It has been created as a solution to roaming shock for the five million or so Australians who travel overseas each year and return to a mobile phone bill of hundreds...
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Global sim card tips for saving
Tags: global roaming, global sim card, international roaming, roaming sim
Looking to save money on international roaming bills? Look no further than BackChat Mobile. Here are five top tips on how to save money on cell phone roaming when travelling.
1. Buy a local sim card before you leave home
BackChat Mobile gives you one number and one sim and saves you up to 80% on your global roaming bill in over 130 countries. There are no charges for receiving...
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SAVE OVER $500 ON YOUR NEXT OVERSEAS TRIP
BackChat Mobile can save you over $500 on your next overseas trip with GlobalSIM a pre paid mobile roaming service for travellers which does not incur exorbitant international roaming costs and allows you to receive calls for free in over 50 countries.
BackChat Mobile has calculated the following comparison based on average global roaming costs: if you make 20 minutes of calls to Australia and receive 20 minutes of calls with a regular global...
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The exorbitant cost of both making and receiving calls on your mobile phone overseas is well known, but an Aussie company has come up with a solution claimed to cut the cost of making calls by up to 80 percent.
For example, it says calls to Australia from almost anywhere in Europe will cost $A0.99 per minute. This is well below the rates identified by KPMG in a recent study commissioned by the Australian Government as part of a Parliamentary enquiry into international mobile roaming charges...
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BackChat Mobile slams the Parliamentary report, Phoning Home, Inquiry into International Mobile Roaming, released on 19 March 2009 as offering no solutions to the huge costs of mobile roaming. Australians are found to be paying too much to use their mobile phones overseas, but the Government has missed the opportunity to act to help travelers..
Danny Nathanson, CEO of BackChat Mobile said, "Travellers are being ripped off by the larger telcos with roaming charges. BackChat has shown that you...
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The huge increase in so-called smartphone sales and the higher data usage which has come with it, is both a useful tool for users, as well as a potential money trap. These sales increases impact on devices such as Blackberry, iPhone and other data-enabled mobile phones. Mobile roaming now has another avenue for costing you more than you budgeted for when you travel overseas.
The Singapore Times is the latest to pick up on the phenomenon that operators hate to hear about - 'bill...
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Wednesday, 17 February 2010 05:49 | 
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