In case you hadn’t heard a Cork-based company Cubic Telecom headed by Pat Phelan is making some waves on the technology scene. A few weeks ago they confirmed raising 5M Euro for the new venture and for the last few days have been presenting at the very high profile TechCrunch40 event in San Francisco.

Pat and his team are providing a new service called MaxRoam (launching October 1st) that allows people to use their mobiles all over the world for a fraction of the prices currently charged by GSM providers.

If you hadn’t heard already Cubic Telecom have already made huge steps to reduce the rip-off prices for international landline calls - allfreecalls.ie, allfreecalls.co.uk and yak4ever.com.

Pat and Cubic Telecom chairman Don Jeffery also happen to have a history of supporting the tech community in Ireland particularly in Cork. OpenCoffeeClub Cork for the most part have been meeting in Luigi Malones (owned by Don Jeffery) with Pat being a frequent attendee. Not only that but Pat also gave a spare ticket for TechCrunch 40 to Conor O’Neill of Loudervoice.comanother local company with potential.