FMC lets you make a do-it-yourself hotspot

By DiVitas Chief Blogger

So it wasn’t just me. Apparently everybody at DiVitas got the “I’m high on life!” call from David today. This I learned during the afternoon blog meeting.

David is a sales guy, and he’s very animated (as sales guys tend to be). So when he’s amped up, he makes sure everybody knows about the cool thing responsible for getting him to his happy place. Today’s big event? David was able to place cheap, high-fidelity-sounding calls to us DiVitians from the comfort of his hotel room (yes, David was on vacation in St. Kitts and thousands of miles away during this flurry of phone calls. Like I said – animated …)

Today was my first time hearing about this “do-it-yourself-mobile-hotspot” trick, and I definitely plan to check it out the next time I travel. David brought a portable Linksys access point (AP) from home and simply hooked it up to the Ethernet cable in his hotel room. Voila! He created a mobile-hotspot for himself. Suddenly his laptop could be on the Internet and he could make WiFi calls using his DiVitas phone – all at the same time.

With this little setup, David was able to call everybody at DiVitas (which I think he literally did) and it didn’t cost him a cent. Because he was using WiFi, he didn’t use any mobile minutes. And he avoided those nasty international roaming fees (that can quickly off-set any coin saved on a low-season travel package.)

The bottom line: It can pay to bring your work phone on vacation (that is, if it’s DiVitas). Phoning home with DiVitas is as inexpensive as placing a call from your deskphone because you’re able to use the telephony plan your company set up for long-distance calling.

If only ET had a DiVitas phone. He would have been able to phone home more quickly (and cheaply!)