Irish taken as fools as O2 Ireland iPhone package comes with attached “Paddy tax”
This press release was sent to Global networks today. RTE the national Irish channel have covered it already.
Press-release
Irish taken as fools as O2 Ireland iPhone package comes with attached “Paddy tax”
Irish company Cubic Telecom today blasted the prices that people will have to pay for the iPhone when it’s introduced in Ireland on March 14th. […]
Join us for St Patrick’s Day at Von.x
We had a great craic at 3GSM and were joined by a huge gang.
Following on from the blast we had the we have decided to do the same at VON.x
Join MAXroam, QIK and Global Roaming for a night of Irish goodness.
We would love you to join us at The Tied House San Jose for a […]
T-Mobile takes on Nokia
In an Orwellian style move T-Mobile Germany is planning on getting rid of headsets that allow it users to access Nokia’s fantastic new OVI service.
“T-Mobile Germany is supposedly planning on getting rid of all Nokia handsets that can access the Ovi service. Apparently they are in fear of competition with their own in-house content […]
Limited edition Jawbones launched
If you have been around here for a while you will know that Jawbone is my favourite bluetooth headset.
They have just launched a special edition set designed by Yves Behar, founder of Fuseproject studios
The three models - in black, white and copper-brown - are called dirty talk, trash talk and sweet talk, with discrete logos […]
Another poor sap hit with a US$22,000 roaming bill
There has been numerous instances of this over the past few months.
“A British businessman has been hit with a £11,000 (US$22,000) mobile data roaming fee after his wife used an “unlimited” data account to download several TV shows via a mobile phone. A report in the Sunday Times says that the wife of a business […]
O2 launches iPhone Ireland and pulls a fast one on customers
Again we have a large multinational carrier pulling a fast on the Irish consumer.
This time its O2 in the guise of the launch of the long awaiting iPhone.
The pricing for us poor oul Paddies bears no relation to the UK pricing, I can personally guarantee having been terminating minutes in both countries for over ten […]
Iotum goes global with FREE Conference Calls application
Iotum today announced global availability of its popular FREE Conference Calls application on Facebook under agreements with Internet communications partners Truphone in the U.K., Abbeynet in Italy and MOI Telecom in France.
Starting today, users can join an iotum FREE Conference Call using one of three methods:
1. Direct dial from home, office, or […]
Skype hits 100 billion minutes, all of them free!
I am not a huge Skype fan I think that is pretty obvious to anyone who reads here regularly.
Therefore news last week that Skype has hit 100 billion minutes therefore is not going to make me rip off my clothes and take to the streets of Cork in celebration.
Firstly, everyone of these minutes were […]
Verizon takes first step in race to bottom
Verizon has now officially launched it $99.99 eat all you like voice package, unfortunately its not really “eat all you like”
The plan (below) doesn’t include data or SMS, that plan is $139.99
Obviously Verizon are after the big spenders as they have also offered a two line plan for $269.99.
Any bets on who will be first […]
Steve Jobs biggest mistake?
With news coming out of almost half a million unlocked iPhone’s running on China mobile’s network its time for Steve Jobs to admit he made a mistake on the iPhone marketing.
Apple’s loss of revenue from the missing one million iPhones must be almost $30 million a month.
A simpler solution would have been a two tiered […]
