Global U.S. enterprise travelers spend about $693.50 on an 11-day trip, about 12 times more than the average monthly wireless bill, according to a new survey conduced by Harris Interactive and sponsore dby Brightroam.
“The study shows that 15 percent of employees make at least one international trip per year, which translates into costs of more than $950,000 annually per 10,000 employees," says Jeff Wilson, Brightroam general managers. Voice accounts for about 80 percent of the charges while data charges for Web browsing or testing represent 20 percent of total roaming charges.
About 62 percent of calls are made directly for business purposes while the balance of calls are personal, at 38 percent. Cell phones account for half of the devices being used to make those calls while 29 percent are originated from landlines.
The average number of calls is nine to 10 calls a day. About half of business users have smart phones rather than traditional wireless phones, the survey finds.
About four out of five companies surveyed say cell phones or smartphones are the primary communication tool used when employees travel internationally and 57 percent of all calls made on a trip are made on these devices. Users also are more likely to use a cell phone rather than a land line phone whether they are calling locally, to another country or calling back to the United States from abroad, the survey finds. If not using their cell phone, 60 percent will use a calling card and half will use the hotel phone.
Half of calls are placed back to the United States while 40 percent are local calls within the country traveled to.
Wednesday, January 23, 2008
Employees Spend $693.50 Calling and Texting When Abroad
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Gary Kim has been a digital infra analyst and journalist for more than 30 years, covering the business impact of technology, pre- and post-internet. He sees a similar evolution coming with AI. General-purpose technologies do not come along very often, but when they do, they change life, economies and industries.
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