Policy on Mobile International Roaming

	Message From: debradutta	Total Posts: 13	Join Date: 11/06/2008
Rank: Executive	Post Date: 15/09/2009 09:27:55	Points: 65	Location: United States

Hi All,

I have been a member of the group for quite sometime and find it a great learning resource.

Right now i am working on creating a policy on International Roaming and need the help of my HR leaders.

We have a very high frequency of international travel in our organization and we want to put some kind of system in place to control the expenditure on outgoing calls made during international travel by our employees.

Can anyone help.

	Message From: Jyoti Rani	Total Posts: 65	Join Date: 11/06/2008
Rank: Manager	Post Date: 15/09/2009 11:49:25	Points: 325	Location: United States

Hi,

Now a days there are sim cards available for the international travel with travel agents, where you need not to pay the rent part, it will be call basis and also you can trace all official calls through itemised bills.

Policy can be of reimbursements of international calls on actuals only for official purpose strictly.

You can create a slab systems as per different countries and as per the nature of work person does onsite locally.

Hope, somewhere these points works.........

Regards,
Jyoti

	Message From: rajasekar	Total Posts: 37	Join Date: 11/06/2008
Rank: Executive	Post Date: 17/09/2009 10:08:30	Points: 185	Location: United States

I guess it is an issue everywhere - However what my independent view would be to get a local SIM upon reaching and then sending a mail to the imp clients/employees that number.

	Message From: lingam	Total Posts: 15	Join Date: 11/06/2008
Rank: Executive	Post Date: 17/09/2009 10:10:13	Points: 75	Location: United States

If you recognize and accept the fact that there is a need for the person to make / take calls, then how do you put a limit on it? ....and if that is not the case, then there is no need to have international roaming in the first place.

You could as a deterrent to mis-use / excessive use, get the individual to sign and certify the mobile bill as having been used for making official calls - after some time ofcourse people tend to get used to it anyways.

Tough Call for you - but you need to take it.

Lingam

	Message From: hr@work	Total Posts: 12	Join Date: 11/06/2008
Rank: Executive	Post Date: 17/09/2009 10:37:53	Points: 60	Location: United States

Hi Debradutta,

You must make policies which are practically implementable else like the fat constitution of India, laws are followed more in breach.

First all International calls whether roaming or not need to be approved by the initiator's manager (some minimum level).

The managers concerned must ensure that personal calls are not clubbed with travel expenses....the company can however allow a separate maximum amount per day for this purpose explicitly.

Once the business calls have been segregated, it has to be assumed that employees expend on best judgement basis, again with due approvals from their managers with lots of leniency and lattitude.

They can be advised to save costs where possible by using pre paid coupons where possible, or even get local mobile connections if the stay is longer, or get hooked to the net and use skype if they have wireless laptops or after office hours (this happens in the US due to time diffecence). But all this has to be advisory not compulsarily mandated as business exigencies are paramount bot telecom expenses.

What are the views of other members on this ??

hr@work