Editing Meteor (mobile network) (section)

{{Short description|Irish mobile telecommunications company}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=September 2015}}
{{Infobox company 
| name = Meteor Mobile Communications
| logo = [[Image:Meteor.svg|230px|Meteor Logo]]
| type = Private
| industry = [[Mobile phone|Mobile]] [[telecommunications]]
| fate = Merged into [[Eir (telecommunications)|eir Mobile]]
| successor = [[Eir (telecommunications)|eir Mobile]]
| foundation = 1998
| defunct = 8 September 2017
| location = 1 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.
| products = Mobile phone network, mobile phone services & related goods
| revenue = €388 million (June 2007)
| operating_income = 
| net_income = 
| num_employees = ~800
| parent = [[eir (telecommunications)|eir]]
| subsid =
| footnotes =
| homepage = [http://www.meteor.ie www.meteor.ie]
}}

'''Meteor Mobile Communications Limited''' was a [[GSM]] and [[UMTS]] [[mobile telecommunications company]] in [[Republic of Ireland|Ireland]]. They operated a [[GSM]]/[[GPRS]]/[[Enhanced Data Rates for GSM Evolution|EDGE]]/[[UMTS]]([[HSPA+]]) and [[LTE (telecommunication)|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 (telecommunications)|Eir]], having been purchased for €420m in 2005. Meteor was the only Irish owned mobile operator in Ireland.<ref>
{{cite news
 | first = Deirdre
 | last = McArdle
 | title = eircom to buy Meteor for €420m
 | url = https://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/07/26/eircom_buys_meteor/
 | publisher = [[The Register]]
 | date = 26 July 2005
 | access-date = 26 October 2008
 }}
</ref> 
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.<ref>[http://www.electricnews.net/story/show/10124762  "ENN.ie"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081123054129/http://www.electricnews.net/story/show/10124762 |date=23 November 2008 }}</ref>