Meteor (mobile network)

Meteor Mobile Communications
Company typePrivate
IndustryMobile telecommunications
Founded1998
Defunct8 September 2017
FateMerged into eir Mobile
Successoreir Mobile
Headquarters1 Heuston South Quarter, Dublin, D08 A9RT, Ireland
Key people
Larry Smith's (CEO) term ended in 2010 after Eircom and Meteor's retail operations were integrated.
ProductsMobile phone network, mobile phone services & related goods
Revenue€388 million (June 2007)
Number of employees
~800
Parenteir
Websitewww.meteor.ie

Meteor Mobile Communications Limited was a GSM and UMTS mobile telecommunications company in Ireland. They operated a GSM/GPRS/EDGE/UMTS(HSPA+) and LTE cellular communications network under licence from the Commission for Communications Regulation (ComReg), and were the third entrant in the market, after Vodafone Ireland and Three Ireland. The company was a wholly owned subsidiary of Irish telecoms network Eir, having been purchased for €420m in 2005. 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. As a result, Meteor customers could have numbers starting with the codes 083, 085, 086, 087, or 089.

As of September 2008, Meteor had over 1 million customers, or 20% of the market.[2]

  1. ^ McArdle, Deirdre (26 July 2005). "eircom to buy Meteor for €420m". The Register. Retrieved 26 October 2008.
  2. ^ "ENN.ie" Archived 23 November 2008 at the Wayback Machine