This seems like a useless worry.  These days you can get a card that allows
you to call anywhere in the states for under 10cents/min -- so unless you
plan to spend hours on the phone, this seems like a non-issue.

LRL

>hello everyone,
>
>I'm looking for advice on a proposed method to cut travel costs.  One of
>our more prolific research departments has suggested that they could
>save money by establishing an 800 number so that their traveling
>researchers can dial up the department and either have voice or data
>connection.  This would eliminate the telephone line item on expense
>reports.
>
>We like the idea, but we're concerned about two things.
>
>1.) How can we allocate the monthly cost of the department's 800 number
>to particular sponsored accounts, and
>2.) should this cost be considered "travel" like normal phone calls or
>"computing" because researchers will be able to use it to connect their
>laptops to the department?
>
>thanks,  Matt
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