Irish startup Cubic Telecom mobile service is unique in providing low cost international mobile roaming for voice and data.
“Competitors in this space are United Mobile and Sim4Travel. But none of them have one SIM card with voice and data. Nobody has that at the moment. We’re unique,” said Cubic Telecom CEO Pat Phelan that we met yesterday at Qik’s offices in Redwood City.
Cubic Telecom, in partnership with the live mobile video streaming startup, just launched its first mobile global roaming SIM card – the Qik Roam – for the U.S. market.
“We enable companies to launch their own branded SIM cards,” explains Phelan.
But the 14-person Irish startup looks to rapidly increase its channel footprint in North America and seeks to partner with airlines, large travel sites, telecom startups, etc.
“We probably will do 50 partnerships this year… If someone has a large amount of travelers, we’re going to that market… It’s not an expensive programme [for startups] to get involved in, so if someone was in the travel space and a startup, we absolutely need to talk to them,” adds the telecom executive and an avid blogger.
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