Editing Meteor (mobile network) (section)

==Rapid growth==
In a report by eircom, Meteor had gained an 18.9% share of the mobile market in Ireland, with a customer base of over 962,000 of which over 100,000 (12%) were post paid subscribers under the Meteor BillPay brand. The company's subscriber base had increased to over one million as of September 2008. Meteor accounted for 66% of the overall growth of the Irish mobile market in the year to September 2006.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://investorrelations.eircom.net/pdf/QuarterlyandninemonthReport_presentation.pdf |title=Archived copy |access-date=2007-04-03 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070929142305/http://investorrelations.eircom.net/pdf/QuarterlyandninemonthReport_presentation.pdf |archive-date=29 September 2007 }}</ref>
The company worked closely with Eircom in upgrading its billing systems and deploying [[Enhanced Data Rates for GSM Evolution|EDGE]] and [[3G]] technology on its network. With the developments in eircom's acceptance of the fourth [[3G]] licence from [[ComReg]], Meteor was obliged to have 33% of the population covered with commercial roll out of 3G services in October 2007. Meteor also signed a deal with [[T-Mobile International AG|T-Mobile]] UK which saw T-Mobile UK contract customers being offered a flat rate [[Pound sterling|£]]0.25 for calls made while roaming on the Meteor network in Ireland. On 21 September 2006 Meteor announced the abolition of charges to receive calls while in the UK, by signing a deal with T-Mobile UK.{{Citation needed|date=October 2008}}