BBC bosses splashed around £500,000 on thousands of iPhones, iPads and trendy Mac computers, even as 2000 of its staff were thrown out of their jobs last month.
The corporation has more than trebled its intake of the high-end hardware this year alone, the Daily Mail reports.
New figures obtained under Freedom of Information revealed that the corporation used its own central 'procurement service' to buy 527 glitzy iPhones, iPads and Macs since September 2009.
According to data it bought 254 iPads with a retail value of an estimated £90,000, 14 iPhones at £3,000, and 259 Mac computers or laptops at £388,000.
The BCC also has a 'technology framework contract' with French IT giant Atos which has supplied 2,074 iPhones and Macs under a ''third party' deal, the paper said.
According to the report, in total, the company purchased 2,601 Apple products in the last 24 months.
The BBC defended its use of the trendy gear saying it helped deliver quality services to audiences.
"The BBC regularly trials new and alternative devices to test how they work with our systems and to see how they can help us deliver the best possible services to audiences," it said.
It has also emerged that the BBC is spending thousands of pounds teaching staff how to use their iPhones.
Employees given the smart phones for work will be shown how to 'record audio and video and take still pictures'.
