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

My Htc Hero arrived yesterday, we bought it to test with some new MAXroam stuff and I have to say the improvement in Android since the G1 has been amazing.
Menu layout and movement between applications is quick and intuitive and graphics are amazing.
There is only one slight issue, after an overnight charge and 5 hours [...]

You wake up in the morning, whats your first thought?
“I GOTTA GET MORE FRIENDS”
Who lives like this?
Well @katelawson worries about getting to 100, @eatingLA begs to hit 1000, and @megalucklylady views @carrie as a hero because she has 10,000.
These people really completely miss the value in twitter.
“Popularity is not an indication of quality.” Vanna Bonta
Check [...]

It appears that Irish mobile network Meteor are giving full 3G data free of charge.

Chris Kennedy drew my attention to this early today.
Meteor’s standard prepaid data costs €1 a day for 50 megabytes and 2c per kilobyte thereafter.
However its appears that there is a exploit on Meteor’s prepaid data billing system.
Chris has been running full [...]

I was dismayed over the weekend at Ireland’s non Cead Mile Failte to But Colin Zwirko, 21, Gavin Sides, 19, and Ben Whitehurst, 21 after they were refused entry to Ireland at Dublin Airport customs.
I had heard the story brewing over the week and as (hopefully) an ambassador for all things Irish decided to [...]

I think it was Samuel Johnson that said “The Irish are a fair people; they never speak well of one another”
A piece in the Irish Times was pointed out to me today

Now in fairness to the guy who pointed it out he has also wrote on the subject.
I think we need to move away from [...]

I have been watching developments closely on this non issue around Nokia’s involvement in supplying Nokia Siemens switching for mobile communications equipment to Iran.
I think Nokia’s behavior in the whole sordid issue has been exemplary given that the so called monitoring equipment (intercept) is supplied by every Mobile switch manufacturer at every installation on the [...]

Zero Mobile launched with a blast at CTIA Las Vegas and immediately won an award for its $69.95 unlimited Voice/data/sms package in the USA which hadn’t even launched at the time.
I have been hearing fishy stories regarding Zero ever since and decided to have a look around.
1. There appears to be no update or launch [...]

On March the 12th 2007 I wrote that Magic Jack would be a winner.
A couple of days later they sent me the device
Now we hear that Magic Jack will hit $100 million turnover this year.
“The company is selling about 9,000 to 10,000 MagicJacks a day, according to Borislow, and customers are using about 500 million [...]

A few friends have added the new super trendy .tel domain to their already super trendy .mobi domains. I had a long twitter discussion with Michele Neylon of the Blacknight who host this blog and come highly recommended on the pros and cons.
Michele suggested that I give it a try and gifted me a .tel [...]

I had a stroke of good fortune this week besides the obvious one.
I really dislike answering caller ID withheld and mostly ignore them, I had been pestered with them for the last few weeks and just wouldn’t bother.
Got a call last night from a number and finally picked it up.
It was someone from Canada Life [...]