How to save a million dollars.....

Maxroam today announced that it has saved it's customer an estimated 1 million dollars on call costs.
This is s great achievement for Pat Phelan and his team.
Maxroam offers you THE best way to save money on your calls while traveling abroad.
I am not going to quote chapter and verse from their website as you can read that yourself.
All I have to say is: use it and you will see!

A big thank you...

My work brings me in contact with all kinds of people on a day to day basis. Every now and then one of these people that I meet distinguishes themselves by the going out of their way to help me. Seeing that I have met quite a few of these people over the last few months I would like to say a public "thank you" by means of this blog.

- Joe Drumgoole: Joe was generous enough to refer a business acquaintance to me recently. This person was in dire need for someone that could provide (working) wifi access at a big technology conference in Dublin. On top of this, when we provided a perfect service but the client refused to settle their invoice, Joe went out of his way to mediate on our behalf. We still haven't received payment but I Joe's effort was "beyond the call of duty" and he deserves a big thank you! I want to make clear that the client's behaviour should not reflect badly on Joe as he can not be held responsible for someone else's actions.
- Brendan Lally: Brendan has assisted me greatly with advise and research for my current venture. He is a goldmine of information and has proven to be the perfect person to bounce ideas of. His experience and knowledge enables him to have a very down to earth and no-nonsense view of the sometimes much hyped IT business. Enterprise Ireland could really uses someone with Brendan's knowledge and experience to assists Irish companies wanting to enter the US market.
- Alex Leonard: When Alex heard about the Open Coffee Club BBQ he promptly volunteered his skills and time to design the OCC BBQ website. Alex designed a top-class website in no time. On top of that he has proven himself to be a very likeable and easy-going person. I can strongly recommend him to anybody looking for a web designer.
- Pat Phelan: What can I say? Pat is just an all-round great guy who is always ready to help a fellow entrepreneur.

Roam4Free goes live!

Pat Phelan, great enterpreneur and all-around good guy has given birth twice in the space of a few weeks.
First there was AllFreeCalls a business that made good use of a quirk in US telecoms regulations and offers people free calls worldwide by routing the calls through a Iowa number.
Now he Pat has launched Roam4Free.
It's a service that could spell the end of high (and ridiculous) roaming charges.
I'll quote from the press release:

CORK, IRE, Jan. 22, 2007—Roam4Free, a new service that allows mobile phone users calling each other between countries to bypass steep roaming charges went live today at www.roam4free.ie. The service can be used in 115 countries on three continents calling people in any country. The service will expand to nearly all countries in coming months.

The company estimates the cost of roaming will be cut by an average of 90 percent.

The company issues its users a unique SIM card which they then insert into their mobile phones. The card then roams for free in 65 countries. For example, if someone in France received lots of calls from Ireland, he or she would insert a SIM card into a cell phone that was attached to a European mobile number. Then any calls received from Ireland would be treated as a local call. There would be zero roaming charges, saving the receiver over a dollar per minute.

I am certain that Pat will make a success out of this and wish him luck!

E.