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

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

Eric and all,

  These expenses for phone calls costs weren't entirely wasted,
and I don't believe George nor I were implying or saying so.
But they were obviously extravagant/too high, at a minimum.

  Public outreach isn't expensive if done properly and cleverly.
But if not, it is very expensive.  So I suppose the determination
is a matter of degree, rather than a matter of existance.

Hugh Dierker wrote:

>
> It seems it is good to evaluate and criticize ICANNs spending and
  investing. It would be hard for me to believe they were any good at
  it. I hope it is not necessarily a priority. Personally I think they
  should be spending everypenny they have on outreach to people. I guess
  this would require some rather extravagant expenses in: Travel,
  fellowship programs, communications and lists like this one. I could
  see how it might be hard for someone not in the public relations and
  policy field to think these were wasted expenses. And I think most of
  us would agree that a lawyers communication with his client would
  probably not cost to much in that the lack of communication is the
  number one complaint about lawyers in the west.

  --- On Tue, 2/3/09, George Kirikos <gkirikos@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

       From: George Kirikos <gkirikos@xxxxxxxxx>
       Subject: [ga] Can someone explain how ICANN spends $1
       million/yr+ on telephone costs?
       To: ga@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
       Date: Tuesday, February 3, 2009, 8:22 PM


       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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