- Title or Description
- Phone contracts abroad
- FOI Number
- 2024277
- Date Received
- 04/03/2024
- Type of Request
- FOI
- Request or Question
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1.This is an information request relating to council phone contracts abroad Please include the following information for the last three financial 2.years, 2020/21, 2021/22, 2022/23: 3.Tota.l number of overseas phone contracts
4.The reasons for issuing each overseas phone contract, including the country it was issued for and whether it was issued to an official or counsellor.
5.What each overseas contract included. For example what level of data (4g,5g etc), number of minutes, calls or any subscriptions.
6.The total annual spend on overseas phone contracts. - Response
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1. We don t have any Overseas contracts as such. Our contract for mobile phone use includes Unlimited calls within the UK, Unlimited Texts and 1GB data per month for each user. We can request that data roaming abroad be activated for any user at no extra cost.
2. There are requests from time to time to have overseas use activated and the reasons are many and varied. Some councillors have requested this in the past as they may have been on a foreign visit and wanted to keep in touch with email etc. The same requests have been made to facilitate both councillors and officials to keep in touch with emails while on holiday. However, as stated above, there are no overseas contracts in existence. The activation of the ability to use the phone is done at no additional cost to SBC.
3. Please see answer above. There are no Overseas contracts in place. If the phones are activated for use abroad, that use is covered by the contract we have in place at no additional cost. It remains unlimited calls, texts and 1gb of data per month. Our data is pooled therefore if the usage on a phone exceeds 1gb this is offset against the many phones we have which do not use the full 1gb allowance per month.
4. As per answers above. There are no Overseas contracts in place therefore no annual spend.
