From Germany.....with Connectivity

So I'm sitting here at SAP in Waldorf close to Heidelburg in Germany with the most astonishing experience - I am fully connected to my office in real time and am truely experiencing the wonders of tele-commuting.
I have connected up my GPRS roaming on my 3G data card and it is seamless, simple and robust. No setup, invisibly linking up to a German service provider and at the same speed of data transfer which I get in RSA. Now we have a killer proposition!
When we combine this with the GPRS Blackberry that I am also carrying the service is incredible! The Blackbery also connected seamlessly.

I have used my new Vodafone 3G card and its been a very pleasant surprise. My colleagues here from 6 counties around europe and all from other banks are quite surprised by my set up as their banks do not even support this type of functionality! My colleage from Norway has a bank that does not even allow him to link his cellphone to his work mailbox. So here we are from Africa and we are showing up senior IT execs from banks from Norway, Spain, belguim, England and Germany itself.

The roaming agreements for both Blackberry and 3G just took a phone call to set up and usage just required one to power up and activate. I had a weird experience with my password reverting to the previous one on the 3G card but otherwise have been pleasantly surprised by the speed of the system, it's almost as if im in RSA based on response speeds.

I'm able to read RSA papers, deal my mail and do so in near real time, which means no full mail boxes when I am back and even though I'm out of the office and put in an "out of office' in my mailbox, I'm probably even more productive and quick to respond to incoming mails. Not sure what all this is costing me yet but the enhancement in productivity and agility definitely worth it.

Roaming just took on a whole new meaning for me - now I take my internet connection with me! This stuff is real, it works and its value adding

Definitely like an American Express card - "Dont leave home without it".