Last year we used our company blackberries to give a realtime tracking service that allowed friends and family to monitor our progress around europe. As you can see on the right of the new look blog we're doing the same again (there's a link to a page with more detailed maps above it). The only issue this year is cost, since we're paying our mobile bill when we get back, unlike last year. Fortunately Ross noticed that orange have introduced travel bundles so Ross and I have bought 30days of 12mb of roaming data which should be plenty for the tracking service and for posting to the log while on the move. Anything too data intensive can be done using the hotel wifi at the beginning and end of the day.
Also new EU rules force mobile operators to 'switch off' data once a customer gets to 16mb (12 for PAYG) meaning without bundles the most you'll get stung for in any one month is about £44 inc vat, a vast improvement on before when you could get home to a huge bill in excess of £1,000 if you were thick enough to download a blueray video while on holiday!
Sent from my iPhone
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