Pat Phelan: Telecomms DisruptorSubverting telecomms from the edge of industry

I am going to be off-line this weekend and its all Charlie Hurley’s fault.
In 1957 Cork born Charlie Hurley arrived and begun my Dad’s obsession with Sunderland A.F.C. 51 years is a long time to support a football club and never get to see them.

So today that’s going to rectified, three generations of Phelan men […]

The contacts in your mobile phone are THE social network and with a number of companies attempting to gain access to this it was only a matter of time before back-up kings Zyb made a play for this.

The ZYB Phonebook will, for example, enable you to:

* see the live physical location […]

This is an interesting one which crossed my path today.
SIMable unlocks your SIM, it allows you to put your SIM in any network locked phone and talk without the hassle of having to get your phone unlocked.

“SIMable is an innovative little chip that frees your SIM card to work in the vast majority of mobile […]

We have seen a number of new or revamped products over the last few months and I wanted to examine ways to reduce you or your companies telephony charges.
Skype
With Skype packages now live there are considerable savings to be made for anyone making long distance calls. The addition of Skype mobile yesterday and the 3 […]

This is turning into a kind of confessional get it all off my chest day, feast on the humble pie and get it out of the way.
I was 100% wrong on the 3Skypephone, the bloody thing rocks

I started testing the 3Skypephone seriously a couple of weeks ago and can’t get the damn thing to fail, […]

Just back from a visit with Yougetitback founders Paul Prendergast and Frank Hannigan. They are celebrating the release of their companies mobile application.

The application which backs up your contacts and secures your phone was released late last week and the Cork lads are quietly pleased.

Mobile Superhero is a clever piece of software that allows you […]

MAXroam was recently reviewed on GetconnectedTV
The program aired this week and we are delighted with the result.

One of my oldest friends Don Mescall played The Everyman Theatre last night supporting country and western star Hal Ketchum.
Don was magnificent and afterwards myself and my sister ran his merchandising stall (good to get back to real world selling)
Don has given me a full package of all his albums to give away here so […]

My youngest son Scott is a huge boxing fan and he drove me nuts today today to call Setanta sport’s and pay to get Hopkins V Calzaghe fight in Las Vegas turned on tonight.

So here we are, up all night but looking forward to a good fight.

02 have made the the first positive step in Irish mobile phone usage for a very long period.
This week they have announced “Release”

Make as many calls and send as many SMS as you like and only pay €99 plus VAT @ 21% per month. Its not bad in fact its not bad at all. Its […]