Talk:Meteor Mobile Communications

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Move to Meteor Mobile Communications?

Agree, is it neccessary to hold a vote if not controversial? Djegan 19:23, 6 Jun 2005 (UTC)

No, but you have to get an admin to move the article when the target exists (which it does). --Kiand 19:30, 6 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Understood. Djegan 19:33, 6 Jun 2005 (UTC)

This article has been renamed as the result of a move request. violet/riga (t) 11:48, 11 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Hi, just browsing through this page and had a quick thought. I may be wrong, but I thought Western Wireless had bought out the minority shareholders stake? AFAIK they own 100% of Meteor now, but it's worth checking out.

According to here its a wholly owned subsidary of Western Wireless now. But for how much longer...--Rdd 00:20, 10 July 2005 (UTC)

[edit] UMTS

In the article it says Meteor DID not apply for a UMTS license. Have they applied now?, because it seems to give the impression that they didn't, at first, but have now. - Gerbon689

Okay, the story is that in 2001 the Director of Telecommunications Regulation (now Comreg) held a competition for four UMTS licences. Vodafone, O2, and 3 applied for and got three of the licences. Meteor being at that point a start-up and not having the money to develop a UMTS network did not apply. The fourth licence remainded dormont until just a month ago when an expression of interest for the fourth licence (licence "B" 3) was recieved by ComReg. This is widely believed to have been from Eircom Group plc. ComReg have hence reactivated their procedures and called for further expressions of interest in the licence, which may or may not lead to the fourth licence being issued. The deadline for this was last Friday, we don't know if Meteor have expressed an interest yet. Formal applications for the licence have yet to be called (proposed date: 22nd July) and the deadline for reciept will be 9th September.

Short version: Meteor did not apply in 2001. They might have a chance now.--Rdd 22:19, 11 July 2005 (UTC)

Well if it was Eircom, it will probably be used by Meteor since it seems very likely that Meteor will be bought by Eircom.

[edit] Orange Legal Action

Does anyone know, on what grounds Orange took legal action against the decision to award the license to Meteor? - Gerbon689

Their website had details in 2000 when the challenge happened but the news archive doesn't go back beyond 2002 now - which is odd as they started in 2001... --Kiand 02:35, 31 December 2005 (UTC)