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Ireland MVNO Companies
BROKEN Link, inaccurate Information, please contact us, and we will check it, and Fix It!The Irish Mobile Market has Four Mobile Network Operators(MNO)s which all provide access and origination on mobile telecommunication networks to Resellers and MVNO. Presently there is a total of 4 Mobile Virtual Network Operators (MVNO). Based on our research, we have identified that Hutchison 3G Ireland limited has no MVNO Agreements, Meteor Mobile Telecommunications Limited has 1 MVNO Agreements, O2 Communications Ireland Ltd has 1MVNO and finally Vodafone Ireland Ltd. has 2 MVNO Agreements.
View a Brief Overview on the Irish Telecommunications Overview or; Download Comreg’s End of Year, 2010 Report. Alternatively view Nokia Siemens Networks’ Data Connectivity Report on Ireland. For further information, please go-to Commissions for Communications Regulation – Ireland’s Telecommunications Regulator.
Ireland Wireless Networks(+353)
Hutchison 3G Ireland limited aka 3
Meteor Mobile Telecommunications Limited
O2 Communications Ireland Ltd
Vodafone Ireland Ltd.
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MVNO: 48 months BLUEFACE eMobile Postfone Tesco Mobile MVNE: Aspider Solutions Fujitsu Services Ireland Roaming: Cubic Telecom Ryanair Other: SIMchronise This is an updated and fairly comprehensive listing for MVNOs (Mobile Virtual Network Operators) in Ireland today. We have listed most known and Active Ireland MVNO/SP & ESP companies (where possible). If you have updated information about the companies listed below, or are not listed then please use the following form.
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48 months
Telefonica has launched mobile virtual network operations in Ireland. Dubbed ‘48 months‘, Telefonica Digital’s MVNO unit will target the youth segment. The 48 monts service is exclusively available to users aged 18 to 22.
MVN0; Network: O2; Services: Pre+Postpaid; Status: Active – New 31-01-12Aspider Solutions
ASPIDER Solutions delivers on-demand MVNO business processes, technology and systems designed to allow rapid and cost-effective development of branded mobile services for Mobile Operators, MVNOs and M2M players. Over 40 organisations in Europe and the US already rely on ASPIDER Solutions to provide business critical services in prepaid, postpaid, M2M and hybrid models. For further information, please view the resource: MVNE Companies.
MVNE; Network: Vodafone; Services: MVNE; Status: ActiveBLUEFACE
BLUEFACE, THE internet telephony provider, will launch a mobile phone service at the end of next month, having struck a deal with Three Ireland to become a mobile virtual network operator (MVNO).
MVNO; Network: Three Ireland; MVNE: X-Mobility; Services: Pre+Postpaid; Status: Active – New 27-01-12Cubic Telecom
Cubic is one of the world’s first and largest suppliers of white label mobile communications, which abolish high roaming fees that are usually charged by incumbent Mobile Network Operators (MNOs). The company offers a 100% white label platform where MVNO’s can customise everything as their own, including having their own branding of SIMs and web portal, plus customised audio prompts and short-codes. MVNO’s can set up multiple sub-distributors, each with their own discrete pricing, and customisation.
Roaming; Network: Various; Services: Roaming; Status: ActiveeMobile
As part of their mobile strategy Eircom and Meteor have launched eMobile aimed at the older residential & business market. This is to be complementary to the Meteor brand (mainly used by younger residential wireless customers). eMobile is an MVNO which uses the Meteor Network for its services to residential & business customers, to complement the residential and business mobile services offered by Meteor.
MVNO; Network: Meteor; MVNE Aspider Solutions; Services: Prepaid; Status: Active – New Oct’10Fujitsu Services Ireland
Fujitsu Services Ireland the prime contractor behind the MVNE platform operating Tesco Mobile Ireland and GiffGaff a UK MVNO launched in November 2009. For further information, please view the resource: MVNE Companies. Download: O2-Fujitsu Services Case file.
MVNE; Network: O2; Services: MVNE; Status: ActivePostfone
MVNO; Network: Vodafone; MVNE Aspider Solutions; Services: Prepaid; Status: ActiveRyanair
Ryanair, the Irish Airline Company, considering launching its own MVNO services, however in Q3’10, they signed an agreement with Cubic Telecom to support & sell MAX ROAM.SIMchronise
SIMchronise is a dynamic Irish company providing a wide range of mobile applications to Mobile Network Operators and MVNO’s, service providers, mobile retailers and resellers around the world. In a market driven by handset replacements due to loss, theft, damage and upgrade, SIMchronise offers an innovative and competitive approach to the synchronisation of data, its protection and its migration from one device to another.Tesco Mobile
Tesco Mobile is a 50/50, joint venture, MVNO agreement between Telefónica O2 UK and Tesco plc. It offers customers value, simplicity and choice, along with supermarket style offers and the chance to earn Clubcard points when buying handsets and call time. In 2007, following on from the success in the UK, Telefónica O2 Ireland and Tesco Ireland launched the first MVNO, in the Irish market-place.
MVNO; Network: O2 ; Services: Prepaid; Status: Active
Previous MVNO Companies
BT Ireland
BT and Vodafone Agreement to Significantly Boost Competition and Network Investment in Republic of IrelandEasy Mobile
MVNO Service, for easyGroup Ltd. and TDC joint-venture.
MVNO; Network: O2Imagine Communications
Imagine briefly operated the first Irish MVNO “Cellular 3″, which used Eircell (Vodafone Ireland) as its MNO. This resulted in a legal challenge and Imagine exiting the MVNO market. The “Cellular 3″ name came from Imagine’s de-facto position as Ireland’s third mobile operator at the time. Imagine Communications are an Irish ISP and telephone operator, who provide WiMax, wireless broadband [http://www.imagine.ie/wimax_gomobile.html]and resell Eircom telecommunications wholesale packages. Beyond Ireland, Imagine Communications Group operates in the UK, the Netherlands, Austria, Norway and the US. Imagine were the first company to bring WiMax to Ireland.Just Mobile
MVNO Service launched in Ireland, on the 21st of October, 2010Previously Reported Companies Seeking MVNO Solutions
Carphone Warehouse Ireland
Reported Planned MVNO. No Information Can be found on the mobile service other than it’s website. If you have information on the status of this company, and the services that it offers, then please use the following form.Dome Telecom
Planned MVNO for this calling card organisation, allocated three sets of 089 MVNO numbers in September 2005 (talks with O2 and Vodafone networks). No Information Can be found on the mobile service other than it’s website. If you have information on the status of this company, and the services that it offers, then please use the following form.Perlico
Reported Planned MVNO. No Information Can be found on the mobile service other than it’s website. If you have information on the status of this company, and the services that it offers, then please use the following form.Spirit Telecom
Reported Planned MVNO. No Information Can be found on the mobile service other than it’s website. If you have information on the status of this company, and the services that it offers, then please use the following form.
Ireland Telecommunications Overview Brief: BMI (Excerpt)The Irish telecommunications market is highly competitive, although incumbent fixed-line operator eircom continues to dominate both the fixed-line telephony and broadband access markets due to the extensive nature of its national telephone network which underpins the availability of such services. The company’s entrenched position is ensured by continued customer loyalty to the eircom brand, despite the fact that the company has been through successive ownership changes over the last 10 years that have done little to improve operations and service availability. At the time of writing, it seemed increasingly likely that eircom would be divided into discrete wholesale and retail businesses, with the retail business spun off as a separately owned and managed company.This would be a largely beneficial development for Ireland’s growing alternative operator sector, as the process of accessing and co-locating equipment on the national network, allowing for competitive telephony and broadband services to be offered at the lowest possible prices, would be greatly simplified and made more transparent and bring access costs down to a more commercially viable level.
From eircom’s perspective, this move would mean becoming almost exclusively focused on offering wholesale services to promote use of its national network, but it may ultimately have less cash to call on for developing and improving its network. The broadband sector stands to benefit the most from this self-imposed case of structural and functional separation, as greater competition will emerge between eircom and its rivals and new entrants will be encouraged into the market.
For now though, eircom dominates, with its 534,000 ADSL customers at the end of Q407, up by 48% year-on-year (y-o-y). This accounted for nearly 60% of all broadband subscribers at that time. Its largest rival is cable operator UPC Ireland, with a 9% market share. Meanwhile, the Irish government is subsidising the build-out of metropolitan broadband networks by alternative operators, which has been very successful to date.
It is also sponsoring a National Broadband Scheme and will soon license an operator to serve the 15% of Ireland’s geographic area that is presently neglected by eircom and the larger service providers. eircom has a less significant presence in the mobile sector, where its Meteor Mobile subsidiary remains the third-largest operator and will be the last of Ireland’s four mobile phone companies to launch a commercial 3G offering. Rival Hutchison 3G Ireland (3) is said to have considered buying Meteor from eircom, but has backed off due to fears that it could not profitably sell its high-end services to Meteor’s low-end customer base. Waiting in the wings are said to be BT of the UK and T-Mobile of Germany, and it may be that Meteor will get another new owner by the end of 2008. Meanwhile, the Irish mobile market grew by 10.6% to 5.101mn by the end of 2007, slightly improved on the previous year’s 9.5% growth, although the 2007 result was boosted by the inclusion of subscriber figures relating to Hutchison 3G for the first time.
Omitting Hutchison from the analysis gives an annual growth rate of 5.6%, indicating that growth in the market is slowing down. Market leaders Vodafone and O2 reported poor performance overall in 2007, though Vodafone’s woes may most likely be attributed to its dependence on the prepaid segment, which impacted on ARPU levels for the year, while O2 met with some success in reducing its prepaid subscriber base. Nevertheless, interest in 3G services appears to be strong at the moment, with BMI estimating that there may have been as many as 1.055mn subscribers at the end of 2007. This would represent nearly 22% of the overall subscriber base at that time and a 111% increase y-o-y, and BMI believes that there will be a 55% increase in 3G subscriber numbers in 2008, which would yield a total of 1.63mn or 32% of all mobile subscribers. Given the historical rate of growth to date and the fact that Meteor will launch services later this year, we are forecasting an average annual rate of growth of 27% for the five years to 2012, which would result in there being 3.35mn 3G customers (19% of the total).
For more information about these or related research reports, please visit our website at Business Monitor International (BMI)
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