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

Its been one of those crazy days here.
T-Mobile announced their intention to increase roaming rate outside EU by over 50%, well our partners TravelNroam decided to balance this.
They are going to give away 1000 free SIM cards each loaded with €5 FREE credit starting at one minute past midnight.
Press Release
Hostelworld.com Announces Travelnroam Mobile SIM Card [...]

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 [...]

With the standard cost of an SMS now in line with the cost of sending a message to the moon and mobile costs dropping like a stone why are we seeing news today that T-Mobile are increasing the cost of an SMS in the USA by 25%
“T-Mobile has just quietly announced that they will be [...]

I am totally disgusted by O2′s behaviour with this iPhone price reduction in the UK, I put a call in again and got the usual no comment bullshit.

I have issued the below press release this evening to all Irish press offices.
Press-release
O2 rubs salt in the wounds of Irish consumer with Paddy Tax version 2
Irish company [...]

In an Orwellian style move T-Mobile Germany is planning on getting rid of headsets that allow it users to access Nokia’s fantastic new OVI service.
“T-Mobile Germany is supposedly planning on getting rid of all Nokia handsets that can access the Ovi service. Apparently they are in fear of competition with their own in-house content [...]