Pat Phelan: Telecomms DisruptorSubverting telecomms from the edge of industry

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 [...]

Its not every day Ireland can boast a new World Champion…
Then again, it’s not every day Ireland produces a world-beating driving-force such as Adam Carroll.
The 26-year-old from Portadown today took a quantum leap towards his dream of Formula One stardom by clinching his own world championship crown in the prestigious A1GP World Cup of [...]

One of my issues with being so busy is that it leads to blogging blanks.
I have so much to say on twitter and in real life but all this talk leads me to firing blanks on this blog.
So I introduce you to a new meme “Firing blanks”
Why do companies say their client is the “best [...]

You are now familiar with my regular cyber squatting on Pat’s blog. Today 1 year after this post we are going to see if Twitter can be mainstream and still be interesting.
In last few weeks celebrities took over our favorite social medium. Not that it bothers me. Twitter is a democracy. My issue is mostly [...]

We would love to see you all here. Come along and support Adam and the lads, we nearly have it won.
Invite below
MEDIA INVITATION
Wednesday 22nd April 2009, Mansion House, Dawson Street 10AM-12:30PM
A1 Team Ireland Comes to Town…
YOU are invited to join A1 Team Ireland, the world leading team, who are hoping to move a step closer [...]

The kind guys at Nokia gave me one of their fantastic Nokia CS-10 Internet sticks to test with MAXroam. I have finished testing and the results are great.
Its a mobile broadband usb dongle that works in Windows and Mac, just stick in a 3G sim, enter the network APN and bang you are good to [...]