Tag: pat_phelan

  • Cubic Telecom make the final 40 in TechCrunch40

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    Paul Boutin is reporting the finalists in the TechCrunch40. This has been a closely guarded secret for several weeks now but Paul spotted the names on banners in the Palace hotel! One of the names is Pat Phelan’s Cubic Telecom – the only Irish finalist out of over 700 entries – well done Pat. There…

  • Cork-based telecoms firm raises €5m

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    Pat Phelan’s Cubic Telecom have released details of €5m worth of investment they have received. Cubic Telecom is the parent company of the Roam4free and Yak4ever brands. From the release Cubic has raised a EUR3.5M investment from private backers in order to develop a suite of innovative global mobile and home phone products under the…

  • Congrats Pat

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    Pat Phelan’s Cubic Telecom company has been selected to be one of the finalists in TechCrunch 20 for their Roam4free product. What is TechCrunch 20? From the site: Twenty of the hottest new startups from around the world will announce and demo their products over a two day period at TechCrunch20. And they don’t pay…

  • Yak4ever is Allfreecalls.net relaunched and re-branded

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    Pat Phelan is persistence personified! He launched Allfreecalls.net earlier this year to some considerable acclaim only to have to shut it down after legal action by AT&T! Pat has been plugging away in the background ever since trying to get the service back up and running again. Yesterday Pat announced that Allfreecalls.net is back up…

  • Off to MIX07

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    I’m writing this post in Terminal 3 of Heathrow Airport waiting to board a flight to Chicago (and then another to Vegas) for Microsoft’s MIX07 conference. I’m looking forward to the conference, the line-up of talks looks really impressive and I’ll get a chance to meet some great people. What is really cool as well…

  • Pat's in trouble – continued

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    A couple of days ago I posted that Pat Phelan was in some trouble. This evening Pat confirmed it: From Pat’s blog: Our allfreecalls provider in Iowa today took flight due to increasing pressure from a large USA based carrier. We are working on getting a new number up. We expect to be back in…

  • Pat's in trouble

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    I just got word that Pat Phelan is in some serious trouble – can’t say more at this time but watch this space and keep your keyboard fingers ready to try to help him out when this story breaks (probably in the next 24 hours).

  • Cork blogger meetup

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    Pat Phelan is organising a blogger dinner/meetup to coincide with the visit to Cork of Shel Israel and Rick Segal in October. The dinner is on in the Taste of Thailand restaurant, Bridge Street, Cork on October 17th at 8pm. Leave a comment on Pat’s site if you want to attend. I know I’ll be…