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

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 [...]

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. [...]

My friends know how much doing this stuff turns me on
MAXroam running with full 3G on an unlocked G1 Android phone

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Its been a pretty hectic few weeks with MAXroam V2 launched last week and now the MAXroam hosted platform

We have had thousands of inquiries from resellers and have signed up many but the number one question is always
Can I have my own brand?
Well now you can

Let us take care of everything, world class website,personalized logo [...]

I have now used every Irish network including the 3G radio on the iPhone 3G and have used MAXroam in it with full 3G in a couple of different countries.
All with no issue
So what am I using
Well its this little beauty.The Rebel sim card, (Go buy one and test it use the code weekend10 for [...]

12 months ago today we launched MAXroam at TC40, today in honour of that event we launch MAXroam V2
So what’s new?
Firstly and most importantly
Data roaming – from 0.005/kb
USA Roaming – from €0.39 per minute
These are two huge milestones for us, USA as it the most visited country by global cellular customers and Data as its [...]

Its 3.15am in San Francisco and my “body” just woke up, maybe its to remind me to celebrate
This time 12 months ago I was in bits, we were launching MAXroam in 48hrs, bags of stuff wasn’t ready and I had to do a dry run demo for Techcrunch 40 with Jason and Mike in just [...]

We are beginning to get ready for the next series of releases on MAXroam.
Its been a while coming but we now have a global team working on it and its moving rapidly.
This week has been extremely positive though
Today we executed on a series of price reductions. The average savings to our customers are as follows
Cost [...]

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 [...]