2014

Profound Apologies for not telling the truth It seems that we haven’t been completely truthful in telling you the amount we save our clients on the international, non-geographic and roaming mobile bills. I sat down and analysed all of our calling data for  2014 and it seems that we are actually increasing the savings we […]

What I mean is that you don’t need to leave the country. 75% of the calls Amiigo saved money on for our clients are made from the UK. Half of those are to landlines, 45% to mobiles and 5% via satellite. If you think about it, it makes sense.  You don’t need to travel internationally […]

Which countries has Amiigo saved the most money in? Amiigo’s voice solutions are designed to cut the cost of doing business internationally.  When you’re travelling on business, the last thing you want to worry about is the cost of keeping in touch, either with the office or with your clients.  It may, therefore, be a […]

Billshock is a growing problem, even with the cost of roaming data, and calls, being splashed across the media on a constant basis. The latest high profile victims of billshock have been government ministers, and particularly a provincial cabinet minister in Alberta, Canada.  This is actually the second time Diana McQueen, now Minister for Energy, […]

EU cap still leaves room for savings The maximum charge limits imposed on the mobile operators by the European Union came in just over a month ago. From July 1st 2014 the maximum you can be charged for roaming data is 20c per MB and 19c per minute for outbound mobile calls.  My Google Alert […]

Increased coverage for Amiigo’s roaming data solution If you’re heading off to the eastern Caribbean, on business or pleasure, shortly, we have some great news.  Amiigo has now added eight additional countries to our roaming data coverage. Cayman Islands Dominica French Guiana Guadeloupe Martinique Montserrat St Barthelemy St Martin our roaming data charges for these […]

    . If you do business in Switzerland, I am sure you know that the country isn’t part of the European Union.  This has its advantages and its disadvantages: It’s tax rules are advantageous for many Their banking system is legendary You don’t use the Euro – is that good or not? The new […]

Roaming Tariffs – will they every really disappear? The European Parliament has capped roaming voice and data charges within the EU.  They have said they plan to remove them completely by the end of 2015. The question is will this really happen? A sceptical soul would suggest that the EU often talks tough, but then fails […]

A habit is, by definition, hard to break. One definition says: A recurrent, often unconscious pattern of behavior that is acquired through frequent repetition. Once we get used to doig something a certain way, we like to continue doing it that way. It’s comfortable; it’s easy; it’s what we want to do. There’s a book […]

  Most of the time we talk about percentages within our marketing, simply because it is easier to do this and we are aggregating data from 1,000’s of calls made around the world. What I wanted to do today was simply put this into some perspective and show you just what those percentages mean, with […]