Who needs to use a mobile telephone?

Press, 24 August 1988, Page 44

Who needs to use a mobile telephone?

Almost anyone who is reliant on telephone communication for business can benefit from the use of a mobile telephone in one way or another. So far, the most prolific users in New Zealand have been self-employed tradespeople, who are now able to save hours of valuable working time by having instant contact available to them wherever they are. Many builders and construction service tradesmen use the phone to order materials, check on other sites, and, most importantly, to be able to receive calls from new customers without the need for expensive answering services, or secretarial wages. In the professional sector, real estate has been a large consumer of mobile phones. Agents are able to organise themselves far better, often completing involved negotiations on the spot, simply by being

able to contact buyer and seller at the same time. Executives and salespeople favour the small hand-held mobile phones, not only to be accessible in the car, but also so that they can be slipped unobtrusively into the briefcase, and taken to meetings and presentations. No modern-day board meeting would be complete without the unmistakeable. ringing of a portable cellular phone at least once during the proceedings! Add to these, such typical users as service engineers, courier drivers, mobile glazers, computer support staff, signwriters, truckles, in fact almost anyone you could name would have at least a dozen good reasons to use a mobile telephone, and you will soon see why the arrival of this new technology has revolutionised and reshaped business practice all over the world. It is true to say that in 90 per cent of cases, a mobile phone will either make you money, or save you money. In the other 10 per . cent, at the very least it will save time.