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

I have never been a huge Skype fan believing that people speak on phones rather than computers and that 5 billion is a much more interesting number than 28 million. I am though a fan of a new application called Viber which appears to be taking the world of telephony by storm. Friends who would be [...]

Some interesting news floating around regarding Apple and its interest in purchasing iCall a USA VOIP provider.
iCall allows iPhone users when in a hotspot to divert calls off of the GSM network and onto the WiFi network. I have been testing it for a few week now and quality appears to be as good as [...]

Today was a great day for Blackberry, Firstly qik got out their Blackberry app which is covered extensively elsewhere and works perfectly for me.
This morning Truphone got me over a copy of the new truphone call anywhere for Blackberry, unfortunately I was unable to write about it earlier due to teething problems but my buddy [...]

This is a real serious development for the Fring team lead by my buddy Boaz Zimmerman,an email from Gil Regev yesterday asking me to test had to be ignored for 24hrs due to travel, I posted today that the iPhone was going under the hammer for a Samsung Omnia i900 but this has earned it [...]