Our department has switched for the most part from MSU-owned phones to employee-owned phones. In the past, I did have a department-owned phone, and the detailed phone records were always there. I never worried about documenting non-campus calls, but then the plan I was on had plenty of minutes, so there was no marginal cost for those calls. Doug On Thu, Dec 13, 2007 at 04:57:09PM -0500, John Gorentz wrote: > I'm curious as to what other IT people are doing with cell phones given the > edict about logging all incoming and outgoing calls. ( > http://ctlr.msu.edu/mbp/mbp78.htm and http://ctlr.msu.edu/mbp/mbp79.htm ) > > Did this cause any departments to drop MSU-owned phones in favor of > employee-owned ones? Did any departments end up dropping MSU-owned Nextel > phones? > > Personally, I don't have a problem keeping my MSU-owned phone free of > personal calls. I do have a problem with logging every last call, and I do > have a problem carrying two phones around. The solution for the latter is > usually easy for me during normal working hours -- just put my personal > phone away. It's pretty rare that I need it. After normal working hours > it's not so simple. I'm curious as to how others are dealing with these > policies. > > John Gorentz > W.K. Kellogg Biological Station -- Doug Nelson, Network Manager | [log in to unmask] Academic Computing and Network Services | Ph: (517) 353-2980 Michigan State University | http://www.msu.edu/~nelson/