Category: Telecoms

  • Jajah launches half-baked mobile product

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    Tom Raftery
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    Jajah launched a new VOIP product for mobile phones overnight. The story was broken by our own Pat Phelan and followed up by BusinessWeek and Mike Arrington. There are a number of problems with the product (I suspect they launched to deadline rather than launching when they had fully tested). The most obvious one I…

  • VOIP blues!

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    Tom Raftery
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    I switched my telephony over to VOIP earlier this year. I signed up for an account with Irish VOIP co. Blueface and the service has been, on the whole, fairly reliable. In fact, I was so happy with the service I recommended it in a Sunday Times article on VOIP this last weekend. Boy do…

  • ComReg – the Telecoms Poodle

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    Tom Raftery
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    ComReg is the Irish telecoms poodle as opposed to the Irish Telecoms regulator which is what they claim to be! This is the organisation which has presided over Ireland being one of the most expensive countries in Europe for broadband and consequently Ireland having one of the lowest rates of uptake for broadband in Europe.…