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| May 1, 2012 | iPhone Internet Access Abroad: Amazing And Getting Cheaper | After using a smartphone for years, the mobile Internet becomes so engrained in your life that you don’t realize how much you rely on it until it’s not there. Business and pleasure travel overseas, for example, are prime occasions where mob... |
| Feb 13, 2012 | Maxroam Launches An MVNO With Vodafone In The UK | While startups across the world are doing their best to disrupt mobile networks with clever voice call apps, like Viber, there remains the basic issues of actual voice and data access which still requires some chipping away at. It’s a parti... |
| Feb 12, 2012 | Maxroam Launches An MVNO With Vodafone In The UK | While startups across the world are doing their best to disrupt mobile networks with clever voice call apps, like Viber, there remains the basic issues of actual voice and data access which still requires some chipping away at. It’s a parti... |
| Dec 2, 2011 | Going To Le Web? Maybe Get A Roaming SIM Card | Lord knows cellphone cross-border roaming is a nightmare, especially when Americans visit Europe only to find their data bill has exploded. Add iPads and smartphone and you have a recipe for a financial headache. It’s not something you want... |
| Jul 7, 2011 | Cubic Telecom secures €500,000 from Enterprise Ireland to continue expansion | Cubic Telecom – best known for its MaxRoam product enabling cheaper mobile roaming – has secured €500,000 from Irish government-backed fund Enterprise Ireland to continue its expansion. In total Cubic has raised €5m in venture funding to da... |
| Feb 14, 2011 | Maxroam Signs Airline To Disrupt EU Cell Roaming For 78 Million Passengers | Maxroam, the mobile company out to disrupt mobile cell roaming, has signed a significant deal with Ryanair, Europe’s biggest low-cost airline which carries 78 million passengers annually. The deal is to create the world’s first free mobile ... |
| Feb 14, 2011 | Maxroam teams up with Ryanair to offer free EU roaming to 78 million passengers | Maxroam, the mobile company out to disrupt mobile cell roaming, has signed a significant deal with Ryanair, Europe’s biggest low-cost airline which carries 78 million passengers annually. The deal is to create the world’s first free mobile ... |
| Nov 20, 2010 | The Europas European Startup Awards 2010 – The Winners and Finalists | The Europas, the European Startup Awards, were held last night in London. It was the culmination of a month of online voting by the European tech startup industry for the finalists, where some 33,126 votes were cast across 23 categories, ei... |
| Aug 30, 2010 | MAXroam Partners With Ryanair To Offer Travelers Low-Cost Roaming | Cubic Telecom, the TechCrunch40 company behind the traveler-friendly SIM card MAXroam, has partnered with popular European airline Ryanair to slash roaming costs for travelers. Cubic Telecom’s MAXroam allows users to use their unlocked cell... |
| May 14, 2010 | With MAXroam's New SIM, You Can Kiss AT&T Goodbye And Head To Europe With Your iPad | One of the best things about opting to get the 3G version of the iPad is that it’s completely unlocked. You don’t have to do anything that voids the warranty to get it to work with any GSM Micro SIM. In the U.S., that’s not that useful sinc... |
| Jan 4, 2010 | Could Google be planning to add its own SIM card to the Nexus One? | Tomorrow Google will unveil at a press conference, well, something. Most of the press and blog coverage surrounds the speculation that it will be about Google selling the Nexus One (running Android) directly from its site. This will likely ... |
| Aug 24, 2009 | Is the recession bringing back the incubator model? It has in Limerick | I thought incubators – as a model for producing startups – had long gone out of fashion. But, first of all there are rumours a new one one might be starting up in the UK. Around the same time, an incubator has, in the last few months, appea... |
| Aug 14, 2009 | More distribution for a SIM which smashes roaming charges | MAXRoam, the Cubic Telecom-owned property aimed at undermining punitive mobile roaming charges, has sealed a deal with HostelWorld. The new Travelnroam mobile roaming service will carry a branded mobile SIM powered by MAXRoam which will be ... |
| Jul 23, 2009 | ShoZu and MAXroam Partner to Free Mobile Users Worldwide from the High Cost of Multimedia Social Networking While Traveling | CORK, IRELAND, and LONDON, UK– 23 July 2009 – ShoZu Ltd (www.shozu.com), the award-winning social media hub, and MAXroam (www.maxroam.com), the global roaming provider, today announced a partnership that gives mobile users a fast, convenien... |
| May 5, 2009 | Mobile 2.0 Europe — bringing together mobile influencers | Announcing Mobile 2.0 Europe: a two-day event on June 18-19, 2009 in Barcelona that will explore the emerging Mobile Ecosystem and Disruptive Mobile Innovation, presented by Dotopen and the Mobile 2.0 Organizing Committee.
After 3 events in... |
| Jan 26, 2009 | Dopplr And MAXroam Are Now Travel Buddies | Cubic Telecom, the TechCrunch40 company behind the traveler-friendly SIM card MAXroam, has partnered with Dopplr to sell the card through its online store. The Dopplr -branded SIM card will be available for a reduced rate of €45 (down five ... |
| Dec 2, 2008 | Note to self, you: Do not roam internationally on AT&T – UPDATE: AT&T responds | I’m not a vindictive man. I believe in sweetness and light. But I would encourage anyone with a brain who travels, especially in these trying economic times, to buy an unlocked GSM phone and purchase pay as you go SIM cards or a MaxRoam SIM... |
| Sep 12, 2008 | Butcher's Bunch Podcast at TechCrunch 50 | The TechCrunch UK & Ireland Podcast heads to TechCrunch 50 in San Francisco
Interviews:
Loic Le Meur, Seesmic
Ian Dodsworth, Tweetdeck
Dave Sifry, Offbeat Guides
Baksur Roy, Qik
Stuart Smith, Connective Logic
Ben Metcalfe, Consultant
Pa... |
| Aug 11, 2008 | iPhone 3G unlocked? [UPDATED] | http://qik.com/player2.swf?streamname=c89c603b836b45388abe59bfaeb7191d&vid=155737&playback=false&polling=false&user=patphelan&displayname=patphelan&safelink=patphelan&userlock=true&islive=&username=anonym... |
| Jul 30, 2008 | Call your Twitter pals with Phweet | Would you like to talk to your Twitter friends or set up a spontaneous conference call? Normally you’d have to agree to hook up over Skype or something else. But soon you could be making calls via Twitter .
Phweet is a new service which doe... |
| Jul 30, 2008 | Start voice calls via Twitter? No way! Way. | Would you like to talk to your Twitter friends or set up a spontaneous conference call? Normally you’d have to agree to hook up over Skype or something else. But soon you could be making calls via Twitter.
Phweet is a new piggy-back Twitter... |
| Jun 2, 2008 | Productivity on the Road | I was supposed to finish this piece last Friday to cap off productivity, but, in fact, I was traveling. That’s right. I couldn’t do a piece on travel productivity because I was traveling.
Trust me: it wasn’t for wont of gear that I didn’t t... |
| Feb 10, 2008 | MAXRoam: Easy international roaming with a SIM card | Just a quick note to mention that MAXRoam.com is a really great service. Essentially it’s a reduced rate pre-paid SIM card that lets you add multiple numbers to the same SIM. For example, I now have a SIM card with four international number... |
| Feb 4, 2008 | CrunchGear Barcelona Meet-up | I’m headed to Barcelona tomorrow and will be rolling around the Catalonian country-side for a few days before MWC, which starts next Monday. I’d love to talk to start-up folk and/or fans in B-town and Girona. My number in Spain, thanks to t... |
| Feb 4, 2008 | MobileCrunch at MWC 2008 | I’m headed to Barcelona tomorrow and will be rolling around the Catalonian country-side for a few days before MWC, which starts next Monday. I’d love to talk to start-up folk and/or fans in B-town and Girona. My number in Spain, thanks to t... |
| Feb 4, 2008 | CG Spain Meet-up: The CG in Spain falls mainly in the plain | I’m headed to Barcelona tomorrow and will be rolling around the Catalonian country-side for a few days before MWC, which starts next Monday. I’d love to talk to start-up folk and/or fans in B-town and Girona. My number in Spain, thanks to t... |
| Feb 1, 2008 | MAXRoam updates service | Irish ‘disruptive mobile telecoms’ startup MAXroam (previous stories) has just completed a large update to its service. To its roaming clientele who want to save money on mobile calls while overseas, it now offers live billing, the ability ... |
| Jan 5, 2008 | Is Twitter really costing $14 billion in lost productivity? | In a brilliant piece of deduction, Pat Phelan and Florian Seroussi of telco startup Maxroam estimate on their blog that time spent on Twitter will cost $13.5bn in lost productivity 2008. How did they reach this eye-watering figure?
Reversin... |
| Dec 17, 2007 | Cubic Telecom To Roaming Travellers: “Don’t Get Mad, Get Even” | Company Announces “Roaming Mad” Story Competition — Consumers Win Vouchers for Stories about High Mobile Roaming Rates
CORK, Ireland -- December 17, 2007 – Cubic Telecom, a leading provider of global-roaming solutions for the consumer and e... |
| Dec 13, 2007 | MAXRoam secures high-street distribution | Irish telecoms startup Cubic Telecom, which launched the MAXroam SIM card aimed at roaming travellers, has struck a distribution deal for the UK and Ireland through the high street electronics chain Maplins. MAXroam uses local, in-country n... |
| Nov 16, 2007 | Yak4Ever Takes Second (and Final) Dip into Deadpool | Well, that was fun while it lasted – for consumers at least. Yak4Ever has sunk back into the TechCrunch Deadpool after reemerging from it in May. This time it looks as though it’s there to stay.
We first reported on Yak4Ever when it was cal... |
| Sep 27, 2007 | MAXroam sells 500 SIMs in first day | MAXroam, the new mobile roaming service from Cork-based startup Cubic Telecom, has sold over 500 SIM-cards in the first day of trading today.
CEO Pat Phelan told me by phone: “It’s going mental. I thought we’d do 50-100 in the first day, bu... |
| Sep 17, 2007 | New companies launch: Yap, Cognitive Code, Viewdle, Faroo & more | Ten companies presented during today’s morning portion of Techcrunch40 conference in San Francisco. If we were able to have stock in these companies, here’s how we’d rank them: CastTV, Cubic Telecom, Yap, Cognitive Code, Viewdle, Powerset, ... |
| Sep 17, 2007 | MaxRoam, a low-cost alternative for mobile international calls | Update: As is noted in the comments below, the company gave out misleading information on its rates prior to launching. To see correct pricing info, check here.
Pat Phelan, the Irish entrepreneur whose startup AllFreeCalls provoked major ir... |