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During VON Spring in San Francisco last March, I had the time to chat with my friend Pat Phelan, the Irish mind behind Roam4Free, Yak4Ever and Cubic Telecom.

What I like very much about this guy is his concrete view of the market. No frills, just business. He demonstrated again this in his today’s post where he followed up to my post on mobile VoIP, where I basically state that I don’t really need a mobile VoIP service if I’m going to spend more than what I usually spend with my mobile operator.

Pat added an important concept:

Can anyone imagine my friend Kamel Hossain showing off his N95 to his friends when he can buy one acre of prime farming land in his homeland Bangladesh for the same price as this phone?

Most Mobile VoIP services work only with high-end mobile phones but most people that really want to save money are not in the demographic for the devices needed to save that money!

Where is the solution? Pat’s Phonecards 2.0?

There is a huge amount of people that want to save money because they make a lot of long-distance telephone calls. But those people don’t have a PC (sometime) and surely don’t own a Nokia N95.

Let’s figure out a solution for them, we need “Voice4All” 2.0 services.

cubic telecom, luca filigheddu, mobile voip, pat phelan, roam4free