Financial Services GLOBAL CONNECTIVITY AND ESIMS

The employees of organisations of all sizes need to be online while they are travelling abroad for work. Continuing to use the services of their domestic operator usually only makes sense if someone is travelling to a neighbouring country – and sometimes not even then. If you are going further afield, chances are, your home operator won’t have the best rates. Never forget that providing international roaming data is a cash cow for traditional operators. Plus, who needs the worry of whether a domestic carrier will have a roaming agreement in place in every country to provide network coverage and speedy down and uploads when abroad?

Likewise, buying a local prepaid SIM card seems like a good idea if you can face the queues at the airport. But really this is only convenient for when you’re visiting one country. Users need to be alert when visiting areas that are close to country borders as it’s easy for devices to jump to other networks not aligned with the prepaid operator’s packages, something that will gobble up your data and push up costs immediately. Worse, Travel and Tourist SIM card offerings rarely give you a portal with access for enterprise-wide control and transparency into your organisation’s usage, billing, and services – and who will you call if you have problems to resolve?

Meanwhile, accessing public Wi-Fi or unsecured hotspots increases the risk of security breaches which can lead to data loss.