Well, this is the part of the show where we go out to you, the audience, to ask your technology questions.
Today’s question is from Jennifer Young. She’s from Thunder Bay, Ontario.
Jennifer says, “I’d spend a lot of money on a long distance roaming charges while I am checking my phone messages on business trips. How can I avoid this?”
Well Jennifer, I found a service called PhoneTag which converts your voicemail into text. That will prevent you from having to call in and it have roaming charges or long distance fees whenever you’re on the road.
The way the program works is you basically set yourself out using your computer on the phonetag.com service. You forward all of your calls to the service and it then acts as the receiver for all of your voicemail, converts it into text and then sends it to your smart phone, your BlackBerry or any phone that you have.
So, another nice thing that’s really handy about this feature is when you’re in meetings. You know how sometimes you’ll get someone calling you one, two, or three times and you think to yourself, “Cheese, this might be a really important call”. Well, you can’t exactly pick up your phone and listen to your voice messages in the middle of that.
The nice thing about phone tag is when it’s converted to text, you can discretely check on your phone, see if it’s important and then leave the meeting if you need to.
When we’re talking about price plans for this, you can get unlimited usage for about $30.00 a month. They also have a scaled down plan that’s about $10.00 and that gives you around 40 users, or you can go on a case-by-case basis and pay about 35 cents per voicemail that it converts.
There you go Jennifer, it’s phone tag. It might just help you out with your roaming charges.
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