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Stop Blackberry issue to ALL Government Employees

Every employee in DHS/CBP/OIOC is required to have a Blackberry. They all don't need them! There are over 139 personnel in the Office of Intelligence Operations Coordination (OIOC). Management should get them as they are accountable to Senior Leadership, so that is maybe 6 blackberries 10 on the outside vice the 139 now being bought and supported. Think of the hundereds of thousands of dollars in saving in that one office alone. Now think about that savings across the whole government. Senior Leadership should be the only ones issued blackberries. Why do normal employees actually need them? (Understand that other parts and employees of CBP have a valid need like the Border Patrol Agents actually on the borders, etc.) What did we ever do before the "crackberry?"

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Submitted by Community Member 2 years ago

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  1. Community Member

    Once upon a time only Emergency Essential people had government issued cell phones or blackberries. The younger generation can't live without their blackberries. But you are so right, think of the savings if the government would just stop paying of the contract and upkeep on hundrends of thousands of phones.

    2 years ago
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  2. Community Member

    Not all DHS employees have Blackberrys. I am a DHS employee and I don't have one.

    2 years ago
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  3. Community Member

    This would save so much money -- on the Military side of the fence as well.

    2 years ago
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