Pat Phelan: Bits, bytes and telecomsMobile, Roaming and Social Media

I have watched the mobile coupon space for almost 4 years now and haven’t seen a huge advancement or to correct myself I haven’t seen it getting to the stuff we were hacking around with 4 years ago. A post by Andrew Grill has awoken my interest in this space and let me tell you [...]

Truphone have taken a giant step with their release of V4.0 Users are now able to make calls without being connected to the internet, The system commonly know as dial-through involves the Truphone system making call to a local number and at the same time making an international call, the server then marries these calls [...]

Nice set of results from Vodafone Ireland today and a great set of results from the group as a whole which unusually saw their chairman Arun Sarin announce his intention to leave. Sarin will step down in July, Vodafone posted a full-year profit of £6.66 billion ($13.2 billion) In Ireland Vodafone has finally announced its [...]

O2 appear to have woken up with the first bunch of competive products I have seen for Ireland. Recently they launched “Release” which offers unlimited calls or texts to any network for €99 which is a definite step in the right direction and Ireland’s first unlimited plan. Now it appears that its the turn of [...]

Mobile phone carriers behaviour never ceases to amaze me but this one takes the biscuit. Frank had a problem with his mobile and got a loaner from the Cork Vodafone store, they gave him a phone and a charger, he went back to collect his own phone and forgot the charger (estimated value €5 IMO) [...]

Today we have made a number of significant updates to Twitterfone. We have had some failures on SMS delivery, this is now rectified, if you didn’t receive your SMS just go to log on page and we will give you a local number to verify your number. Most importantly we are happy to announce that [...]

A paragraph from an excellent post from Luca Filigheddu got me thinking about voice and where its at and where its going. “All that being said, it’s very difficult for me to see another major disruption coming in the short term to impact mobile communications. I’m referring to changing the way people use their mobile [...]

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 of your [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]