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

A couple of months ago Vodafone invited me to the launch of the Vodafone 360 which was hosted by Dito Von Teese. To be honest it wouldn’t have taken Dito to drag me along as Vodafone 360 was created by my buddy Tommy Ahlers.
Anyways much as I love it, it was a gift thus must [...]

I have written on this extensively before and will keep this post short but with all the handbags being swung here I thought it might be an idea to do a simple real world experiment to show why PR isn’t necessary any more for smaller brands.
So its Sunday morning and your head is lifting with [...]

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 [...]

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. [...]

Well that turned out well
I received the top award at last night’s Net Visionary Awards for contribution to Ireland’s emerging entrepreneurial class.
Lots of fantastic people got awards also including the superb Marie Boran of Silicon Republic.
Anyways I am privileged to have received this award and thanks to everyone at the IIA and Enterprise Ireland for [...]

Well as the say in Ballyphehane
My cup runneth over boy
September has definitely been the best month of the year for me/us
MAXroam launched V2 and September has been extraordinary.
We have been short listed for Twitterfone in the category Best new web application at The Irish Web awards, I will miss this one as I am [...]

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 [...]

Viviane Reding, the EU telecoms commissioner is changing tack on an almost monthly basis. The telecom killer now seems to suggest that she is in favour of the USA/China style model of RPP.
Imagine paying per minute for every call you receive, its total and utter madness, it works in the USA at 1c average but [...]

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 [...]