Originally Posted by moox:
“At least your employer offers phones. My former employer (multi billion dollar multinational) was fully BYOD (unless you're high up enough to be able to expense the purchase), if you wanted a BB10 device you could use one on their network, but you had to buy it yourself (with a small discount through Vodafone if you wanted it), and unless you were one of a small minority of employees you had to pay for your own phone plan too. Same for iPhone/Android/WP.
At least it gave me an excuse to not have company email on my phone (I paid for the device, I'm not going to give them control and I will root or use custom ROMs if I want to)”
“At least your employer offers phones. My former employer (multi billion dollar multinational) was fully BYOD (unless you're high up enough to be able to expense the purchase), if you wanted a BB10 device you could use one on their network, but you had to buy it yourself (with a small discount through Vodafone if you wanted it), and unless you were one of a small minority of employees you had to pay for your own phone plan too. Same for iPhone/Android/WP.
At least it gave me an excuse to not have company email on my phone (I paid for the device, I'm not going to give them control and I will root or use custom ROMs if I want to)”
I happen to work at one of the telcos .... previously we had a choice of devices, going forward iOS is only for management, Android for the workers. There's something subtle in that decision.
