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BROADCASTING


Radio

Television
  • Stations: 4 terrestrial stations, using 10 transmitters (plus more than 90 low-power repeaters) (2006)

  • Televisions: 1.47 million (1997)

  • See also: List Of Irish Television Channels


See also: Radio Telefís Éireann and Broadcasting Commission Of Ireland . For a more detailed discussion of the broadcasting landscape in Ireland, see Media In Ireland .


INTERNET



TELEPHONE

Telephone system
  • domestic: digital system using cable and microwave radio relay

  • international: satellite earth station - 1 Intelsat ( Atlantic Ocean )


Telephones - fixed

Telephones - mobile
  • Subscribers: 4.05 million ''(Q3 2005)''

  • --- Pre-paid : 3.078 million ''(Q3 2005)''

  • --- Contract: 972,000 ''(Q3 2005)''

  • Mobile phone penetration: 100% ''(Q3 2005)''

  • Call minutes: 1,449,462,000 ''(Q3 2005)''

  • SMS messages sent: 1,048,112,000 ''(Q3 2005)''

  • MMS messages sent: 6.1 million ''(Q3 2005)''

  • ''' Average Revenue Per User '': €47.37 ''(Q3 2005)''

  • STD Codes for Irish mobile phone operators:

  • --- 083 3 Ireland UMTS

  • --- 085 Meteor GSM

  • --- 086 O2 Ireland GSM , ( UMTS - not yet launched)

  • --- 087 Vodafone Ireland GSM , UMTS

  • --- 088 Eircell TACS (former network, closed July 2001)


Due to the introduction of full-number portability, some phones may now operate on different networks to those on which their number was originally allocated, thus an 086 number may not necessarily be an O2 number, likewise a Vodafone customer may have an 085 number if they were previously a Meteor customer. According to Comreg, 390,000 mobile phone users had taken advantage of FMNP up to September 2005.


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