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Stu · 20-07-2006, 06:02

It would be nice if it worked that way in theory. It doesn't. The old saying about rank has its privileges applies here. I graduate from a public urban University with good grad school programs. When I went to school, the original president was a tight wad saving money for a rainy day. When he left, they replaced him with a new president who spent money like a drunken sailor and is still there. He flies first class everywhere. He stays in five stars everywhere. I know because I knew one of his tech guys, that he uses his mobile exactly the same way when touring Russia as he does back home. The notion that he would have to swap a SIM card or use some sort of callback service to save $3 a minute -- who do you think he is! He has better things to do with his time than worry about this nonsense.

I answered the person's question the way he seemed to want it answered. That didn't mean I necessarily agreed with the person's president. The guy who was requesting our input is some poor schmuck looking for a seemless solution from his president so that he isn't called from Dubai at 3 in the morning from the president on a hotel phone phone wondering why his mobile e-mail wasn't in the hotel limo between the airport and the hotel.

If you ask the president, he'll justify it by saying that if one of their plants in China gets shut down for a day, they could loose hundreds of thousands of dollars. A $12,000 a year mobile phone bill is a small insurance policy to make sure that doesn't happen. Cough, cough, cough.

Stu

PS: When I retire, I'm going to move to "Theory." It is the only place where things work the way they should.

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Stu (Offline) Senior Member Prepaid Guru Posts: 1,091 Join Date: 11 Feb 2004 Location: Detroit (formerly Dubai) Country:	20-07-2006, 06:02 It would be nice if it worked that way in theory. It doesn't. The old saying about rank has its privileges applies here. I graduate from a public urban University with good grad school programs. When I went to school, the original president was a tight wad saving money for a rainy day. When he left, they replaced him with a new president who spent money like a drunken sailor and is still there. He flies first class everywhere. He stays in five stars everywhere. I know because I knew one of his tech guys, that he uses his mobile exactly the same way when touring Russia as he does back home. The notion that he would have to swap a SIM card or use some sort of callback service to save $3 a minute -- who do you think he is! He has better things to do with his time than worry about this nonsense. I answered the person's question the way he seemed to want it answered. That didn't mean I necessarily agreed with the person's president. The guy who was requesting our input is some poor schmuck looking for a seemless solution from his president so that he isn't called from Dubai at 3 in the morning from the president on a hotel phone phone wondering why his mobile e-mail wasn't in the hotel limo between the airport and the hotel. If you ask the president, he'll justify it by saying that if one of their plants in China gets shut down for a day, they could loose hundreds of thousands of dollars. A $12,000 a year mobile phone bill is a small insurance policy to make sure that doesn't happen. Cough, cough, cough. Stu PS: When I retire, I'm going to move to "Theory." It is the only place where things work the way they should.