Keeping In Touch Despite the Distance
Taking the decision to emigrate and leave your country to travel thousands of miles is rarely a simple one, but each year hundreds of thousands of people do it. Notwithstanding the world wide web where communication all over the world is in theory like lightning, living thousands of miles from your family is always a challenge.
In examples in which people who live in one developed nation travel to another, the internet genuinely does the job with a number of costless applications that enable people to talk with one another. In truth, though, this kind of move is an extremely small percentage of global emigration.
In many western nations at the moment, there is a negative response to immigration from so called ‘developing’ nations. This is largely for economic and political reasons, and is utterly idiotic.
Research into a range of ‘developed’ nations all over the world has demonstrated that immigration is vital to the development of the economy.
Therefore, a proportion of companies have neglected this different demographic, but the ones who are clever have cottoned on to this opportunity – although, it must be said it’s probably not a demographic with a wealth of disposable income.
For people who are emigrating across the globe, just having the ability to speak with the family and loved ones that they may have left behind is invaluable, and one can’t always trust in a solid internet connection. In a number of countries (even in Europe) the internet is flaky at best and notional at worst.
So, the solution is a reliable solid telephone. Getting hold of a decent pay as you go rate isn’t simple, but there are organisations to be found who provide low cost calls, and free sims, if you know what you’re looking for.
That said, despite the fact that the prime market may well be people trying to ring their family with such a big percentage of people travelling all over the world all the time, being able to make low cost international calls is a undoubtedly a useful resource to have in your back pack.
Chris Tanner is a free lance technology consultant who specialises in communications issues in the developing world, he recommends Lebara for all low cost calls with free sim
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