I can cut/paste my calls to Excel from Meteor billing interface, but it is still a bit of a pain to scan each new number called and identify whether work or not. Also, Meteor presents text numbers in a different format to voice numbers, so I have to record each called number twice!up to about 2 years ago I was able to download my vodafone account to ms excel. It was a fairly simple matter to sort data and filter out work calls. For some reason vodafone withdrew this service and replaced it with pdf docs.
Thanks, looks promising. I'm registering now.Could you route personal or work calls through something like [broken link removed] thus possibly saving money on them and leaving the relevant category of calls easily identifiable on your itemised bill (i.e. by scanning for the 13434.ie number that you call through)?
But can't you imagine the whinging from the public sector bashers without this painful level of audit from public sector employers? "Ow, look at all those lazy public servants getting money for nuttin for the imaginary phone calls" etc etcI would also consider it insulting if I worked my ass off for somebody and they sat me down every month to dissect a phone bill.
I'm amazed that they haven't taken a really simple option of picking up the name that corresponds with frequently called numbers from the online texting phonebook, and printing call details by NAME rather than by number on bills. This would make bills much more user friendly.I looked at a similar proposal to Rainydays one in a previous employer - specify a set of work and/or personal numbers and have your carrier report on them seperately. That would work well in most circumstances. Unfortunately it looks like none of the carriers offered this service at the time. It should produce a report like this -
Personal calls
01-234-5678 1m20s 60c
021-345-678 0m15s 10c
Work calls
01-700-7000 15m20s 90c
Unknown calls
00800-800-8000 7m40s 140c
That would make it relatively easy to do the kind of analysis required to provide the refund or re-charge.
If you mean Vodafone then Vodafone Passport might have helped here?Mrs Murt and one of the kids have pay as you go mobiles. Last year, they were worrying about running out of credit on holidays and used my mobile for sending texts. I didn't know until I got home that foreign text cost 0.50c each. Not too expensive on its own, but when the kid starts playing text tennis with her friends, or sends them all the same joke, the costs soon mount up.
As I mentioned earlier there are third party add-ons for some handsets that allow this. Here's an example. There may be others that are more or less flexibly/convenient.The first company to invent a mobile phone with two sim cards will make a fortune.
As I mentioned earlier there are third party add-ons for some handsets that allow this. Here's an example. There may be others that are more or less flexibly/convenient.
OK - I've signed up for this, and it seems to work. The downside is that to use my saved numbers (as I would want to do for most work calls), I have to call the 13434 access number, wait for them to answer, choose 'send DTMF' from the 'options' menu, select the number from my address book, wait for the DTMF tones to go through, then hit '#' - so it is a bit cumbersome.Could you route personal or work calls through something like [broken link removed] thus possibly saving money on them and leaving the relevant category of calls easily identifiable on your itemised bill (i.e. by scanning for the 13434.ie number that you call through)?
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