Using my works Mobile

boyzie

Hi

I have a mobile from work on an o2 business cotract. Personal calls are not aloud.

Is there a way to charge my personal calls to me instead of the company.

Cheers

Boyzie

--Tony--

I'm no expert on Mobiles but home phones are easy, you just route personal calls through 18866 maybe there is a similar way to route your personal mobile calls with a prefix? I'm sure others will know, I have seen threads about routing calls on mobiles and taking advantage of inclusive calls to route expensive calls.

thefirs

I think you're going to be disappointed on this one. Up to the start of December, some Orange contracts allowed free calls to secondary service providers via 0800 numbers, and by registering your work phone to your personal account you would have been able to pay your own way. This has now stopped. The only other way would be to set up a callback arrangement (do a google for "international callback"). It can be made to work, but is expensive to/from UK mobiles (c20-30p/min) and cumbersome.

Another approach would be to buy a dual sim back for the office phone, and flick the switch to make personal calls, but you'd then be off-air for business calls, and you'd be sending out a different caller ID.

Probably best to put up with carrying two handsets. They're quite small these days, and almost given away.

drahcir_2

you could get a ghost dual sim card like this
http://www.aboveconnection.co.uk/news.html
and use you own sim at the same time as your works sim

pricefighter

To use an alternative supplier on any mobile network means that you would use up inclusive minutes that your employer paid for to access the alternative suppliers network.So if you dialed an 0800/02O access number to access 18185/1899 or an 0844 number he/she would be paying for all/part of call.

The only network you use to be to able to do it on was Orange Contract when you could call 0800 access numbers for free, and you picked up tab for calls, employer paid nowt for access call.

redux

I'd just get a separate phone. The twin SIM devices aren't all reliable, or so some dealers have said as an excuse not to sell them any more. And with your own phone, you won't be observed apparently misusing the other and have to spend time talking your way out.

Steve_xx

On Orange you can activate a second line on the one handset. I'm not sure whether this can be done on 02?

Or, you could scan your mobile bill and offer to reimburse your company for the private calls made.

---lee---

Steve_xx wrote:

...Or, you could scan your mobile bill and offer to reimburse your company for the private calls made.

That's what I do. You must pay for your personal calls otherwise the mobile becomes a taxable perk.

feival

Mobiles stopped being a taxable perk years ago - I think!

utilitybroker

Steve_xx wrote:

On Orange you can activate a second line on the one handset. I'm not sure whether this can be done on 02?

Only available on Orange,and the bill is would still be sent to the person/company who signed the contract.

---lee---

feival wrote:

Mobiles stopped being a taxable perk years ago - I think!

Your right (from what I understand):

http://www.hmrc.gov.uk/employers/ebik/ebik3/telephones-04.htm

Hmm...