Re: [ga] Can someone explain how ICANN spends $1 million/yr+ on telephone costs?

["Jeffrey A. Williams" <jwkckid1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

George and all,

  Gotta be some serious 900 calls IMO.  More detail is needed
to determine why the cost is so high.  As a matter of comparison
in according to our last audit, our average per employee was a
tad bit over $74.00/month, which I thought was a bit high...

George Kirikos wrote:

> Hi folks,
>
> According to page 26 of the current budget:
>
> http://www.icann.org/en/financials/adopted-opplan-budget-v3-fy09-25jun08-en.pdf
>
> ICANN spends over $1 million/yr on telephone costs. Say ICANN has 100
> staff --- that would be $10,000/yr per person on telephone calls!
>
> Doesn't that sound a *wee* bit expensive, given VOIP, PBX and other
> technologies? Unless they're calling a lot of 1-900 numbers (call it
> "research in relation to the .xxx application") this seems very
> expensive to me. But, perhaps someone else who has $800/month phone
> bills (for each and every employee) can explain this to me (my own
> business telephone costs are roughly one-tenth that per month, and
> would be even lower if scaled over more employees).
>
> Or, put another way, that's a new iPhone each and every month, with the
> old one tossed into the garbage can!
>
> Sincerely,
>
> George Kirikos
> http://www.leap.com/

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