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

Today’s the big day of the iPad 3 launch
Mines on the way, its just left the UK
Have you noticed how many people are now travelling with their iPad, it appears that its the business tool of choice now for everyone you see in airports, with that in mind,We have been working hard here on a [...]

To celebrate our nice new Sony Ericsson X8 Xperia adverts on MAXROAM and on our other sites the guys at Sony Ericsson have given me one of their beautiful Xperia X8 handsets to give away
I have been using this most of this week and I think its one of the nicest Android installs that I [...]

These multiple releases are now part of our strategy moving forward with lots more to come next qtr.
We are delighted to announce a number of new partnerships today.
MAXroam Spain is now open for business in conjunction with our partner Dr Sim a fantasic company which helps Spaniards reduce their mobile bills. A special word of [...]

Today we launched the new MAXroam store.
Its the third iteration and its definitely getting to where we want to be with lots more to come soon.
So whats new?

Lots of phones, a nice selection of the most popular Nokia phones with Sony Ericsson and other models coming soon.
All these phones have never been locked and are [...]

This week we did some amazing stuff at MAXroam which I will talk about in another post but needless to say it was huge, Database changes, server changes, store changes and construction of new Api’s
Obviously the workload was intense.
With this kind of a migration as you know problems pop up all the the time.
Well now [...]

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 [...]

We launched our partnership with Qik at the beginning of April this year.
We went to ton of of trouble to get these giant sims made by the fantastic Fran of Made in Hollywood but DHL in their wisdom lost them
Anyways all’s well that ends well, they turned up today 3 months later.
Don’t the lads look [...]

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 [...]