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

This issue looks as if it could turn very nasty. Last week the UAE rulers announced that on October 11th it will block all Blackberry data transmissions in the Kingdom, citing “security concerns” the government has said  that it cannot monitor BlackBerry communication because data is encrypted and handled through servers abroad. Yesterday RIM the manufacturer of  Blackberry cancelled its launch [...]

O2 UK have just announced the first project with Jajah since their parent group Telefonica acquired the Mountain View based company. I really like the look of these tariffs and this shows nice inventiveness from the team in O2UK and a nice integration of Jajah with a very simple activation path for customers. If I [...]

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 [...]