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Mobile virtual network operators (MVNOs) in Ireland lease wireless telephone and data spectrum from major carriers such as Vodafone, Eir, and Three for resale. As of Q3 2024, the market share of MVNOs in Ireland is 14.0%, including Tesco Mobile with 8.0% and Virgin Mobile with 2.3%.
Digifone followed in 1997, then Meteor in 2001 (having been licensed in 1998) and 3 Ireland launched its UMTS 3G-only service in 2005. 3G services launched in 2004 (Vodafone Ireland) and other networks quickly followed suit, and 4G launched in 2013 (Meteor) and is now available on most networks.
Vodafone 4G is available to over 6 cities and 500 towns in Ireland making Vodafone the strongest and most widespread 4G service offered in the country. Their 5G service was launched in 2019. Vodafone Ireland offers a full range of contract (bill pay) and prepay services, including mobile telephony and mobile broadband.
Meteor was the only Irish owned mobile operator in Ireland. [1] Meteor once issued new numbers with the prefix code 085. Since the introduction of full mobile number portability in Ireland, access codes have become less relevant as mobile telephone users may now retain their mobile telephone numbers when moving between mobile network operators ...
Vodafone: 15 December 2016 [44] Ceased operations. LIFE Mobile: EE: 29 November 2016 [45] Acquired by Plusnet. Mobile by Sainsbury's: Vodafone: 15 January 2016 [46] Ceased operations. Our Telecom EE: 16 August 2016 [47] Dissolved. Ovivo Mobile: Vodafone: 19 March 2014 [48] Ceased operations. PG Mobile Three: 2016 [49] Ceased operations. Plusnet ...
Speak Easy was the name of O2 Ireland's prepaid service. In 2007 they became the first Irish operator to offer free text messages to all Irish mobile numbers, although it only applied for weekends. However, in early 2008 they introduced a new tariff which offered unlimited free text messages to all networks at any time, for life.
Three launched on 26 July 2005 as Ireland's fourth mobile network operator behind Vodafone, O2 and Meteor (now Eir).Service was initially offered as post-paid only, but on 16 May 2006 the introduction of a pre-paid service, known as 3Pay, was announced.
Eircom Limited, trading as Eir (/ ɛər / AIR; stylised eir), is a large fixed, mobile and broadband telecommunications company in Ireland. The company, which is currently incorporated in Jersey, traces its origins to Ireland's former state-owned monopoly telecommunication provider Telecom Éireann and its predecessors, P&T (the Dept. of Posts and Telegraphs) and before the foundation of the ...