Cubic Telecom

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No Comments | September 29th, 2007 | Trackback

With the cost of phones, plans, and accessories skyrocketing with more and more choices on the market, it can be hard to find good deals. We’ve covered a few ideas such as the Skype Phone, international calling cards and numbers, and things of that nature, but our timing seemed to be just a few weeks too soon.

Cubic Telecom is a small company that is planning to make BIG waves. BIG. They are releasing what is called, accurately, the world’s first global cellular phone. Sure, your AT&T or T-Mobile phones may work on GSM, which allow them to function on networks overseas, but your bank account won’t function after you need to use your phone a few times. With most rates overseas being in excess of $1/minute with outrageous roaming charges as well, it’s not uncommon to make a call worth over $50 in normal circumstances.

Cubic’s phone is different however. It works like a prepaid phone, allowing you to add minutes to it as you want, and use those minutes as you want also. There are no monthly or annual contracts either, so you aren’t locked down. What is probably the coolest feature is that you can set up your phone to ring to any of the available phone numbers, from about 50 cities around the world, allowing you to make locally billed calls to friends or family in other timezones. Basically, you could get a Paris phone number and have your French friends call you from home while you are in the United States, for example, for the same rate that it would cost them to call anyone else who lived in France.

The phone should be released early next month, so expect more updates and things draw closer.