Yes. Honestly, really so.

Don't you guys have enterprise-wide roaming contract? Yes everyone is not same, but it comes out of my budget anyway.

Also I need to justify my personal usage and business use for tax and information security reasons. You should avoid use public service like boingo for confidential business should not you? Many incidents I saw were due to mixture of private and business use of the same devices / account etc.

I might not have it for long, but better than leaking the confidential :( Sometimes business expense is less important.:)

Yup - and when my company sends me out of town, I'm not exactly switching out phones when I need to check my personal e-mail. It's widely accepted - at least in my workplace - that employees traveling for business are entitled to reasonable expenses to take care of personal business. We're not so cold that we'll make you call your wife on a calling card.

so I ordered 8k of AGC's on SPG personal card about a month ago. Wasn't able to answer the door when the UPS guy came three days in a row so the AGC's were sent back to Amex. A guy in Utah eventually called me and asked if I wanted to have them re sent or cancelled. I told him just to cancel them. Took about 15 days for the charge to be removed and during that 15 days my statement closed and 8k starpoints were sent to my spg account.

I'm actually going to be closing the card today for unrelated reasons. Any chance Amex will claw back the 8k starpoints from my spg account? Or am I safe?

Thanks

Not sure what you mean by "information security" but for tax purposes perhaps in some countries, but not in the U.S. Per IRS guidance issued in September 2011:

"The Notice issued today provides guidance on the treatment of employer- provided cell phones as an excludible fringe benefit. The Notice provides that when an employer provides an employee with a cell phone primarily for noncompensatory business reasons, the business and personal use of the cell phone is generally nontaxable to the employee. The IRS will not require recordkeeping of business use in order to receive this tax-free treatment."

Amex SPG new business card auto cancels old card in 7 days.
 

Here's a business owner who was, without his knowledge, sent the new SPG Business Open card on Day 1. On Day 3 said owner uses his existing card (with no issues and not anticipating any). On Day 5 he leaves the country. On Day 7 his old card is auto-cancelled. On Day 8, while out of the country, he attempts to use his card and discovers it is cancelled.
I am in Seoul and found that my SPG Business Open card was canceled/blocked/whatever on 9/22. Two transactions failed on 9/22 and 9/23. I was unable to determine whether it was due to merchant not accepting Amex or card was blocked for some reason. I made 3 calls and spoke with 3 supervisors. All stated the same. I was sent the new style card on 9/15. On 9/22 my old card was -automatically- cancelled...period. The policy is that 7 days after sending a customer the new card, the old card is automatically cancelled.
(For comparison, under this scenario, the Amex SPG personal card has a 45 day overlap period for the issuance of these new cards).
I am at a loss as to the logic behind the timing policy of this new issuance.

Now that the annual 30K offer is over, has anyone seen a 25K offer for the biz card that doesn't require a $5000 spend in three months? Prior to the features change, the spend was $3000, which for a 25K bonus seems more appropriate. All I've seen since mid-month is the offer with the $5000 spend requirement.

I have a referral link for 25k/3k spend

FWIW, I received a number of emails from Amex advising of the new card's impending arrival and of the fact that the old card would be deactivated soon. Did you not get such an email notification?

Also, a reminder to all: do not post referral solicitations in this thread. That's a clear violation of the FT T&C.

My best answer is: I don't think so. I had just transferred a large portion of my credit from the personal to the business card about 2 weeks prior. (I was pleasantly surprised that this was accomplished in about 10 minutes over the phone.)I received email confirmation of that and anything Amex related I would have, in particular, spotted as I was really going to make this my preferred travel card and wanted to ensure there were no issues with it. I had purposefully using it at home on Day 3 to confirm there were no issues with my old card.
With the issuance of the new personal card, I received 1 email notification the week prior to travel. I called to enquire if I would receive it before my next trip the following week. I was told that even if I didn't, there was a 45 day overlap where that card would remain active.

I assume the new Business card was issued with an EMV chip. Did the old Business card have the chip?

Yes. The month previous I had requested my account be issued a new card with the chip. Sometime in mid August I received it...in the old style with chip. I activated it and used it over a 3 or 4 week period.

This is HUGE...no foreign transaction fees now
 

Did I miss this announcement?

NEW No Foreign Transaction Fees

No matter where you go or what you buy, you will not be charged foreign transaction fees from American Express for purchases made outside of the United States with your Starwood Preferred Guest® Credit Card.‡

Edit to add: It appears I did...announced in June

There's an entire thread devoted to the subject. See the wiki above for the link.

It covers a lot more than just the FTF, including the increased annual fee, lounge access, and Boingo.

Sorry...I seem to be missing this wiki link....can you please direct me. Thanks