Mobile / Cell Phone Thoughts & Reviews

+ =  Two of my favorite companies and two I have evangelized around the world, literally, have hooked up.  They got together and made a baby called QikRoam.  It is the best of MaxRoam, an internationally roaming sim card providing low price minutes and data around the world and Qik, instantly uploaded video [...]

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The folks over at Cubic Telecom have launched the newest interation of their MaxRoam sim card called V5.  It builds on all the money saving MaxRoam offered before with

70%-80% savingson your roaming bill
Global voice/data coverage on one sim
No monthly daily connection charges
Voice works in 213 countries
Data works in 137 countries

This is a huge accomplishment for [...]

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Congrats Pat, Sean, Florian and all the others on your first year, 100,000 MAXRoam sims and a MILLION dollars saved for people.  I really like your product and can’t wait for revision 2.  See some of you this week in SF.

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So this morning started like any other morning except when my wife got in the car with my daughter it wouldn’t start. Being suburban living big city Americans the first thing we did was call AAA. They came out and diagnosed the problem as a bad battery (Joe was extremely courteous and helpful) [...]

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Truphone as many people know is one of my favorite companies.  They have a great product and good implementation.  They need a little work on their pricing plan but that’s neither here nor there when it comes to todays news.
It was announced today that Truphone purchased Sim4Travel.  They are as far as I can tell [...]

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