Cork company targets US troops with cost-saving SIM cards
Irish Examiner, 25 September, 2008
An American soldier getting a call from his family at home would normally be charged $20-$25 for three minutes. With our SIM he would be charged just $1.50,” said Pat Phelan, the company’s CEO.
12 months ago today we launched MAXroam at TechCrunch 40. Today in honour of that event, we’ve launched MAXroam V2 while we’re at this year’s TechCrunch 50. So what’s new? Firstly and most importantly:
These are two huge milestones for MAXroam and significant wins for our customers. The USA is the country most often visited by global cellular customers, and data is the last frontier for the rip-off operators.
In addition to extended services, the new MAXroam site offers customers:
Full press release below.
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
08 September, 2008
CONTACT:
Pat Phelan President
Cell: +353-87-2049-121
USA (1) 714-820-3583
Email: pat.phelan@cubictelecom.com
MAXroam V2 Pummels Telcos with New Voice and Data Roaming Savings
A bigger and bolder MAXroam hurts the feelings and pockets of telcos
Cork, Ireland - On the one year anniversary of its Silicon Valley debut at TechCrunch 40, telecoms rebel MAXroam today launched new voice and data services to bring even more savings to businesses and consumers when they travel with their mobiles. The new rates drastically cut the cost of voice roaming in the USA, and new data roaming starts for as little as 0.005c/kb. A new website also allows even more granular control of a customer’s roaming preferences.
Since its launch last year, MAXroam has saved customers over $1million USD in global roaming charges. MAXroam rates provide a discount of up to 90% on USA roaming rates, with coverage now in 175 countries via seamless partnerships with 450 carriers. Today’s addition of low-cost data roaming in 75 countries marks a new foray into the world of discounted data.
Pat Phelan, MAXroam president, said: “It’s been a year since TechCrunch 40 and in that year we’ve signed up 100,000 customers and saved people over $1million USD in roaming fees. We’ve promised our customers that we’re going to keep fighting for lower charges and pass the savings on to them. In this release we’ve secured an even bigger win for customers on voice roaming with exceptional savings. And in a move unprecedented in the telecoms industry, we’re now bringing a robust challenge to the data roaming prices of telcos.”
Phelan added that as the emergence of MAXroam and other Telco 2.0 companies made life tough for the high street telcos, the telcos themselves dropped voice charges and shifted their focus to data roaming as their new cash cow. But MAXroam V2 means this cash cow is due for slaughter.
“Everyone now accepts that more and more of our telecoms usage will be data, and that eventually everything - including voice - will be sent over data streams. While the telcos are slowly reducing voice charges, they’re still excessively charging on data. Until now, there wasn’t much we could do about it. What MAXroam previously did for roaming monopolies with voice, we’re now doing with data. ”
To coincide with the launch of their new services and savings, MAXroam has also launched a new website at http://www.maxroam.com with improved user interface, even more granular control of a customer’s roaming preferences, and a full range of enhancements for MAXroam users.
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MAXroam is a mobile and cellular phone SIM card that drastically reduces roaming charges for travellers. With MAXroam, your callers won’t even know you’re traveling. Simply forward your regular mobile number to your selected MAXroam number and start roaming.
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We are beginning to get ready for the next series of releases on MAXroam. Its been a while coming but we now have a global team working on it and it’s moving rapidly. This week has been extremely positive though.
Today we executed on a series of price reductions. The average savings to our customers are as follows:
We have also had an extremely positive review from Salim Ismail one the industry’s top guys and founder of Confabb amongst others.
it@cork also gave us some great coverage including 3 national newspaper pieces.
This was published this week and I love the picture, three of my favourite things front and centre on my laptop, Wordpress, LeWeb and MAXroam.
Biggest sticker: MAXroam!
MAXroam was recently reviewed on GetconnectedTV. The program aired this week and we are delighted with the result:
“A unique solution that will save you a heap of money” is exactly right.
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