Personal Cell Phones for Station Use

January 3, 2012 forum topics
Hey I was wondering that in many cases I have to use my own phone for station/ work related communications. The station does issue me a cell phone but the phone is a Sprint and does not have email, keyboard for easy text and in many cases depending where we are the signal is non reliable. The station wants the photog to email back a pic for web but I have to use my own Smartphone to do this. Another example is that my reporter blackberry is a Sprint and we was on breaking news and he had to do a "phoner" but his signal was worthless so I have to give him my phone which is a Verizon and it had a good signal to do the phoner. The bottom line is that should I charge my station for this because these are my minutes and data. BTW- I do check my work email from this phone. What should I do?