Does Your Company Pay For Broadband?

masq57 writes "My fellow administrators and I used to have company provided ISDN lines in our homes so that we could respond quickly to issues after hours. That was changed in the last few years to letting us expense our broadband service. Now our new CIO has elected to stop that benefit using the argument that we should be dedicated staff who desire to be responsive and should do what it takes to make that happen. The rumor now is that we should also pay for blackberries, cell phones and pagers. What sort of experiences do the rest of slashdotters have along these lines?"

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ISDN is better for the company

[Florian Weimer]

Broadband usually has lousy SLAs (97% availability and things like that). For remote maintainance of decent systems, ISDN is a much better choice.

Mod me down, but you know I'm right

[gphinch]

Why are all the ask slashdot articles these days just 'me too!' bait that the author has to be writing just because he/she/it knows that we're going to side with them. It's not really provoking any meaningful conversation.