Self-employed and professionals major mobile phone users

Press, 12 September 1988, Page 23

Self-employed and professionals major mobile phone users

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 servcies, or secretarial wages. In the professional sector, real estate has been a large consumer of mobile phones. Agents are now 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 sales-

people 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 glaziers, 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. 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, and it could save your life!