The rise of connectivity as a business tool, not just a tourist convenience

For years, mobile connectivity abroad sat in the same category as airport coffee, hotel transfers and adapter plugs: necessary, mildly annoying and rarely strategic. Companies treated roaming charges as one more line item on an expense report, and travel SIM cards as the sort of purchase an employee handled on the fly after landing. That logic is starting to break down. As work stretches across more cities, more short trips and more distributed teams, mobile data is no longer just a convenience