Yes, business is better this year than last (it couldn't have gotten any worse ;-)

Who pays the bills? It's not a simple question, but I guess the simple answer is "Still Domino"

IT is good to read that!

Please be honest , who pay the bill? Lotus domino, Sharepoint or mobile Jobs?

Keep moving!!

I've got a dumb (feature) phone which is off most of the time. I only take calls by appointment such as when my wife is due to arrive at the airport. Phone cost $12 and the plan costs about $100/year.

There's a new pay-as-you-go company, Ting (https://ting.com/plans). They charge you a flat $6/month. Then you add on the minutes, SMS and data you use each month. They charge separably for each of the three categories. So if you don't use any SMS in a month ... no charge.

And the charge are cheaper than my pre-paid and I could get a smart phone too. (Have to buy it from them, though, and the choices are somewhat limited and not subsidized.)

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Not in Europe yet and doesn't solve the roaming issue but to me it makes more sense to pay for what I use as long as the price is reasonable.

Your experience and the comments just support my opinion - data roaming is still a mess, less a mess in the EU, but still only a small gap from being criminal... and really, I don't see that this will change in the foreseeable future.

If you're out of your country and need data traffic, you're doomed or you need to use a prepaid card.

For that reason, I fail to see what mobile web apps that need a decent network connection are good for. But that's a different story.

I love how the phone makers advertise them as though we live in a new world where businessy-type people dash from country to country with all the services then rely on always at there fingertips. When the reality is that roaming is prohibitively expensive and a decent wifi connection a pain to find.

Last time I was in London I'd gotten a bit disorientated so thought I'd use my S2 to find me a Tube station. Not only could I not get GPS my data connection was too flaky. In the end I gave up and just wandered around until I found a station. Old ways are best some times.

As a result I've keep the Galaxy S in "Airplane" mode since the plane left Atlanta. In this mode it can still do WiFi. But the only place I've found with WiFi outside of the office and the hotel room is O'Reilly's so my Galaxy S has pretty much been useless this week.

And with 50 MB needing to last me a week, I'm not using my BB nearly as much outside the office as usual.

$20 for 1 MB without a plan. What a racket.

Regardless of that I'd like to think that the global preference of only updating over wifi would negate the need to do this.

Quinn opted for a 4 day break in Rome with said bf instead. It's not that we left her out on purpose of course.

Glad you guys had a good time.

LOL - I just realized you said the 5 of you, poor Quinn got left at home

I did like your tweet, though: forced to spend time with family. Good boy. ;-)

Anyway, indeed, it's a rip-off. Okay, these telephone companies have invested in infrastructure, but the prices involved when you roam are worse than ridiculous. It's just greed. This is another one of those occasions where you think if they made the price reasonable then more people would use it rather than just turning roaming off.