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

Vodafone Sure Signal arrived last week but with travel and time issues I haven’t had time to test until tonight, before we begin Vodafone gave me this device which honestly is nether here nor there because if they took it back I would go straight out and buy one. Sure Signal uses your broadband line to give you [...]

There has been a huge furore most of it in private regarding Haiti Connect.
This is a post regarding Haiti Connect and any personal slagging off the people behind it in the comments wont be accepted.
I speak from a tiny bit of knowledge of Haiti, having spoken this weekend with a number of people who were [...]

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 [...]

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. [...]

Skype has passed its one billionth download today.
Its an astounding number when stacked against how long it took to hit 500 million (4 years), the second 500 million was done in under two.
To mark the occasion I logged on for the first time in, well, its been a while, grabbed a headset and decided to [...]

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 [...]

A paragraph from an excellent post from Luca Filigheddu got me thinking about voice and where its at and where its going.
“All that being said, it’s very difficult for me to see another major disruption coming in the short term to impact mobile communications. I’m referring to changing the way people use their mobile phone [...]

Whispers emerging from AT&T suggest that the new 3G iPhone will retail @ $199 with a two year contact.
With 18 months in Ireland and 24 months in the UK now being the average mobile phone contract length are we going to see an iPhone break the £100 mark in the UK?
The phone at this price [...]

The contacts in your mobile phone are THE social network and with a number of companies attempting to gain access to this it was only a matter of time before back-up kings Zyb made a play for this.

The ZYB Phonebook will, for example, enable you to:

* see the live physical location [...]

This is an interesting one which crossed my path today.
SIMable unlocks your SIM, it allows you to put your SIM in any network locked phone and talk without the hassle of having to get your phone unlocked.

“SIMable is an innovative little chip that frees your SIM card to work in the vast majority of mobile [...]