Jola Cloud Solutions' Blog

Andrew Dickinson

Andrew has been involved in the telecommunications industry for over 30 years. Andrew held a number of senior sales and general management positions during 10 years with Mercury Communications and Cable & Wireless. His last posting was as an Investment Manager with C&W Innovations based in Menlo Park, CA, USA. In 1996 Andrew co-founded specialist ISP FOL Networks and as MD helped steer the company through five rounds of fund raising. The company grew to over 100 people and a value of £23m within four years. Andrew left in April 2001 to become CEO of Visual Protection Ltd and at the end of that year FOL was sold. Andrew sold Visual Protection Ltd in August 2003. Andrew conceived and founded the investment management company Lucrum in 2002 and was a Director of UK Countrylife until 2004. In April 2005 Andrew was involved in a management buy-in of Griffin Information Systems and served as Sales and Marketing Director until July 2010 when he took over as Managing Director. The company was sold to MDNX in August 2012 and Andrew left the business in March 2013.
Find me on:

Recent Posts

Opportunity is now for IT Support companies to sell cloud telephony

Posted by Andrew Dickinson on 08-Sep-2014 20:32:38

A recent survey by Swan Independent Research of 12,000 UK SMEs with 10-100 employees suggests now may be the time for IT Support companies to get into cloud telephony.

Read More

Topics: Hosted telephony

SMEs not satisfied with mobile contracts

Posted by Andrew Dickinson on 08-Sep-2014 20:20:00

In Swan Independent Research’s August 2014 survey into Business Communications solutions, satisfaction with their mobile contract scored almost the lowest, beaten only by satisfaction with the overall cost of office communications.

Read More

Topics: Mobile SIMs

SMEs still not on board with Cloud telephone systems

Posted by Andrew Dickinson on 08-Sep-2014 13:37:00

Despite all the hype around cloud telephone systems only around 10% of SMEs are actually using them, according to a recent survey by Swan Independent Research (SIR).

Read More

Topics: Hosted telephony

SMEs are still being ripped off on calls.

Posted by Andrew Dickinson on 08-Sep-2014 13:09:00

Jola offers a communications audit service that is free to SMEs below a certain size. In the last audit we conducted we calculated that calls costing our customer £300 per month were actually costing their supplier around £10 per month. 

The problem is one of perspective. The actual cost of calls has reduced by a staggering amount since BTs monopoly was broken in 1984. In those days it was not uncommon for a foreign exchange broker to be spending £2m a month on international calls. The same phone calls today would only cost hundreds of pounds a month. A 50-employee company with a phone bill of £500 might think they are getting a good deal until they find out just how much they could be paying.

Read More

Topics: Hosted telephony

Why now is a great time for IT companies to get into telecoms

Posted by Andrew Dickinson on 08-Sep-2014 12:19:00

1. The market is converging.

Read More

Topics: Dealer

Hosted Telephony - latest in business communication solutions?

Posted by Andrew Dickinson on 08-Sep-2014 10:08:00

Six reasons why cloud telephony is finally taking off.

Read More

Topics: Hosted telephony

Learn about the latest business communication technologies.

Find out what is available in your area.

This blog contains articles, reviews and interviews about the latest communications technologies for business.Sign up to this blog:

  • Become an expert in business cloud communications
  • Learn about the latest technologies
  • Understand how they can benefit your business

 

Subscribe to Email Updates

Recent Posts