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

We at Cubic Telecom are absolutely thrilled to announce we have partnered with Shozu.This was a quick turnaround from two A teams with a little bit of magic in the middle.
Full release below
ShoZu and MAXroam Partner to Free Mobile Users Worldwide from the High Cost of Multimedia Social Networking While Traveling
CORK, IRELAND, and LONDON, UK- [...]

Today was a huge day for us at Cubic Telecom, our first Asian partner launched, we are really thrilled to get this one in bag as its a huge focus for the roaming market.
Lots more news to come (we hope this week )

Buzzroam brews up a storm with up to 80% mobile bill [...]

Every time I leave San Francisco I swear I will be back for a longer period next time, it hasn’t happened yet but hopefully one day.
Today was a day of dreams
I met with Patrick Collison, Salim Ismail, Brad Garlinghouse, Craig Walker and finally the boss man himself Michael Arrington
Mike invited me to the new Techcrunch [...]

Sometimes things really do come together and todays announcement at Qik was a beginning of a new road and the end of a very long journey.
We had been discussing this product since MWC 2008 so I was so happy to get it out the door.
A few noteworthy people to thank first though.
Tainaste Mary Coughlan, incredible, [...]

Time for a bit of celebration here
We just went live in Australia with our partners RoamingSim.com.au, this is where Cubic Telecom is heading we are moving to a technology company
You will see up to 50 new partners during this year with USA, Russia, Lithuania and Canada to come next.
The very best of luck to Jon, [...]

Tonight we won Cork emerging company of the year presented by The Cork Chamber.
It was an excellent event and huge congrats to Chairman Joe Gantly and his team for running an event of this size, nearly 1000 people sat down for dinner.
Digicel Chairman Denis O Brien was the guest of honor and made an excellent [...]

We got some nice news a few weeks ago from the Cork Chamber Of Commerce.
Cubic Telecom has been short listed in the emerging company category.
We have done our initial interview where we were quizzed by the chamber executive team on our business model and the execution of it.
The grand announcement is next Friday night and [...]

This particular news gives me huge joy as I am an enormous fan of what Dopplr is doing and where they are going with the site.

Cubic Telecom partners with Dopplr to help travelers save thousands on roaming mobile user
MAXroam, the mobile roaming product from Cork-based Cubic Telecom, will be available in Dopplr’s online travel shop. [...]

IT @Cork have invited me to speak at their Midsummer networking Event.
“Pat Phelan (winner of one of last year’s it@cork Leader Awards) will talk us through the recent launch of twitterfone and how without a marketing budget within three weeks of launch they have 32,000 sign ups! And unprecedented global media coverage.
Pat reveals the secrets [...]