Alex Kinch

It’s been an interesting few weeks in the world of travel SIM providers. If rumours are to be believed, United Mobile – one of the biggest (and longest established) providers of travel SIMs is in the throws of death – and already some of it’s competitors are trying to pick at the bones.

Note: before you read this post, make sure you’ve read the introduction plus my posts for day one, day two and day three. Of course you don’t have to – but this entry will make more sense if you have!
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So it’s day four. just to re-cap, I’m currently in Jersey, armed with [...]

So day three of my MAXroam road test (read the introduction, day one and day two if you haven’t already), and having been up first thing to catch a ridiculously early flight from London City Airport and been rushing around for the rest of the day I was now settled into my hotel room in [...]

Rather later than planned, here’s day two of the MAXroam road test. It’s a rather short update as I was rushing around the country that day, but with a trip to Jersey planned for first thing the next morning I wanted to at least try and get things working before I left for the airport.
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If you haven’t already read this post, let me bring you up to speed. CEO Pat Phelan over at MAXroam sent me one of his new version five SIMs to play with. Here’s how I got on, from registration to making a call, during five days – and a few thousand miles of travelling – [...]

A few weeks ago I had a brief email exchange with Pat Phelan, CEO of Cubic Telecom – the Irish entrepeneurs behind MAXroam. I’ve been following their progress for a while, and have been eagerly awaiting the launch of the new version of the platform.
Fast forward to last week, and Pat had very kindly sent [...]

Cubic Telecom, the people behind popular travel SIM MVNO MAXroam, have just announced a deal with live mobile streaming video service Qik, which should help Qik users save money whilst they’re travelling.
Following on from a recent deal with travel social network service Dopplr, the deal with Qik will give their users the opportunity to purchase [...]