When travelling overseas keeping connected to your friends and family is one of the most important priorities of most travellers. Skype is a roaming travellers best friends for this purpose.
There a few main areas:
- Diverting your home phone to your local SIM or voice mail
- Making calls back home or to local numbers:
i) to other Skype numbers (free)
ii) using Skype's paid service calling service
- Sending text messages
&
- very shortly (hopefully) live language translation!
http://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2014/05/27/microsoft-demos-breakthrough-in-real-time-translated-conversations/
The key to any of these uses is having access to either mobile data or WiFi. Speed of the data is critical, a minimum 1-2mbps is required for a clear signal.
What's your tech tip on staying connected?
Written by Peter Cain
Peter Cain is the Founder and CEO of dataGO.co, a company committed to making it easier and cheaper to stay connected whilst travelling. You can find him on Twitter and Google+. You can also find dataGO on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and Google+ for all the latest info on local and roaming SIMs and data hotspots.
