{"id":54777,"date":"2014-03-11T19:19:13","date_gmt":"2014-03-11T23:19:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rbachnet.wwwmi3-ss40.a2hosted.com\/index.php\/"},"modified":"2021-12-21T12:30:30","modified_gmt":"2021-12-21T17:30:30","slug":"hidden-costs-of-byod","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/hidden-costs-of-byod\/","title":{"rendered":"Hidden costs of BYOD"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-107526\" title=\"Hidden costs of BYOD\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rbach.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/big_bill.png?resize=65%2C90&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Hidden costs of BYOD\" width=\"65\" height=\"90\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rbach.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/big_bill.png?resize=109%2C150&amp;ssl=1 109w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rbach.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/big_bill.png?resize=54%2C75&amp;ssl=1 54w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rbach.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/big_bill.png?w=521&amp;ssl=1 521w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 65px) 100vw, 65px\" \/><a title=\"FierceMobileIT\" href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20160608213226\/http:\/\/www.fiercemobileit.com:80\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">FierceMobileIT<\/a>\u00a0<\/em><a title=\"Infographic: More hidden costs of BYOD\" href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20150111223743\/http:\/\/www.fiercemobileit.com:80\/story\/infographic-more-hidden-costs-byod\/2013-08-09\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">points out<\/a> research from <a title=\"Visage Mobile\" href=\"http:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20131025204247\/http:\/\/visagemobile.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Visage Mobile<\/a> has identified even more hidden costs in an informative infographic based on data collected between January and April 2013 from 180 companies.<\/p>\n<p>These hidden costs include high <a title=\"Roaming\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Roaming\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener wikipedia noreferrer\">roaming charges<\/a>, as well as downloads of premium text services and <a title=\"Sexting\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sexting\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener wikipedia noreferrer\">sexting<\/a> apps by employees. Employees download $13,640 worth of unapproved apps, ringtones, and premium services every month. As a result, 15 percent of a company&#8217;s phone bill has nothing to do with business, according to the research.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>rb-<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Ummm &#8211; Acceptable use policy? A deduct from their phone stipend?<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rbach.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/infog_hiddent-costs-ofbyod-1.jpeg?ssl=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-121418\" title=\"Hidden costs of BYOD\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rbach.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/infog_hiddent-costs-ofbyod-1.jpeg?resize=350%2C602&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Hidden costs of BYOD\" width=\"350\" height=\"602\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rbach.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/infog_hiddent-costs-ofbyod-1.jpeg?resize=595%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 595w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rbach.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/infog_hiddent-costs-ofbyod-1.jpeg?resize=87%2C150&amp;ssl=1 87w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rbach.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/infog_hiddent-costs-ofbyod-1.jpeg?resize=44%2C75&amp;ssl=1 44w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rbach.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/infog_hiddent-costs-ofbyod-1.jpeg?resize=768%2C1321&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rbach.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/infog_hiddent-costs-ofbyod-1.jpeg?resize=893%2C1536&amp;ssl=1 893w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rbach.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/infog_hiddent-costs-ofbyod-1.jpeg?w=900&amp;ssl=1 900w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h6>Related articles<\/h6>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/rbachnet.wwwmi3-ss40.a2hosted.com\/index.php\/byod-could-land-employees-in-jail\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">BYOD Could Land Employees in Jail<\/a> (rbach.net)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em><a title=\"Ralph Bach\" href=\"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/new-resume\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ralph Bach<\/a>\u00a0has been in IT long enough to know better and has blogged from his\u00a0<a title=\"Bach Seat\" href=\"https:\/\/rbach.net\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Bach Seat<\/a> about IT, careers, and anything else that catches his attention since 2005. You can follow him on <a class=\"broken_link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/rb48334\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">LinkedIn<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ralph.bach.14\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Facebook<\/a>,\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/rbach48334\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Twitter<\/a>. Email the Bach Seat\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:\/\/bach.seat@gmail.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BYOD high roaming charges, downloads of premium text and sexting apps 15% of a firms phone bill has nothing to do with business.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[431],"tags":[2292,420,202,101,32,1242,536,92,304,1895,2062],"class_list":["post-54777","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mobile","tag-2292","tag-aapl","tag-android","tag-apple","tag-business","tag-byod","tag-goog","tag-google","tag-iphone","tag-opportunity-cost","tag-sexting"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54777","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54777"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54777\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":124351,"href":"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54777\/revisions\/124351"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}