Inside ASI-AP

Our corporate mobile plan in AP was updated a few weeks ago so that all mobile calls between any phone on the plan is now free. Previously, we were paying upwards of 30 cents/minute for these calls.

Today, I was working remotely, and spent about 3 hours on the phone - all for free. Last month that would have cost me $80 in call charges.

I thought this was interesting in light of the new VoIP offerings that are now available in their many forms, including the internal ASI system and well known public systems like Skype. Is this a response from the large telco's to make sure we continue to use their services? Our telco is Telstra - the largest in Australia - and I believe they are also making similar moves for home phones so that you get unlimited calls for a fixed monthly fee.

There is certainly a lot of money at stake. For AP, it will save us over $5k/year in call costs. Great news for consumers.

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Added comment from Mick

In case you wanted to know, here are the people with phones on the company plan:

Stuart Lee
Lesley Green
Keith Wilson
Jay McCormack
Amanda Halpenny
Bilal Jeewa
Sue Wagner-Grose
Lap Nguyen
Kevin Burgess
Nola Schembri
Nasser Muhammed
Greg McLeod
Brian Davids
Martin Angelin
Jason Rowe
Marilyn Siddall
Paul Ramsbottom
Colin Bryant
Clara Giangregorio
Mick Varga
Shearne Ramage
Kevin Mayocchi
Julie Willett
Sarah Fletcher
Amanda Kirk