Talk:Meteor (mobile network)

message: Move to Meteor Mobile Communications?
: Agree, is it neccessary to hold a vote if not controversial? Djegan 19:23, 6 Jun 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: 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)
replies: text: Understood. Djegan 19:33, 6 Jun 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: I've just moved it to Meteor (mobile network) due to WP:NC of " use the most common name of a person or thing that does not conflict with the names of other people or things.". In this case its most common name is Meteor, and disambiguating through paretheses gives it a shorter name. I just went ahead and did it due to it seeming quite clear-cut, but if anyone has a major problem with it, feel free to move it back. I also changed all links with AWB but, again, I'll change them back if there's any major objections. It's fine to use the full company name for something like Orange SA but I think it really seems innappropriate wehere it gives it a LONGER name. - Рэдхот(t • c • e) 14:25, 27 April 2007 (UTC)
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message: 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)
replies: text: Well if it was Eircom, it will probably be used by Meteor since it seems very likely that Meteor will be bought by Eircom.
Yeh Meteor didnt apply in 2001 when Eircell (now Vodafone Ireland) and Digifone (now O2-IRL) did. 
Meteor, Eircom, Smart Mobile and Denis O'Brien where the bidders for the 4th 3G license issued by ComReg in 2005. The three remaining bidders were Eircom, Smart Telecom and Meteor. Then Eircom took over Meteor and it was thought that they would definately get the license however Smart Telecom won it.
In 2006 Comreg removed the license off Smart Telecom due to their failure to pay a guarantee bond on it and it was given to Eircom (who thus owned Meteor) So thats how they have the license. (Ro2000 16:46, 18 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  UMTS 

message: 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)
replies: text:  Yeh i think the reason why Orange took action against the Meteor Consortium being awarded the license was because at the time it was an Irish-American led consortium and Orange at that time owned by Hutchinson Whampoa, thought that Comregs Predecessor was being biased in awarding the 3rd GSM license to an Irish-American company over a UK based company.
(Ro2000 16:57, 18 July 2007 (UTC)
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