088 mobile numbers

flodis79

What network/s use/s 088 prefix in mobile numbers?

JTMan

flodis79 wrote:

What network/s use/s 088 prefix in mobile numbers?

The 1G network that Eircell/TE had used the 088 prefix ... It is no longer in use

Esel

Original Eircom analog network - didn't know it was gone though.

radiospan

Yep, gone since 2001:

http://archives.tcm.ie/breakingnews/2001/05/09/story12179.asp

088 started in 1984 used 1G TACS technology.

Pataman

plazzTT wrote:

Yep, gone since 2001:

http://archives.tcm.ie/breakingnews/2001/05/09/story12179.asp

088 started in 1984 used 1G TACS technology.

Great now I feel even older!

dublin_apache

Would it be possible to bring the 088 system back, i.e. would it wotk if they changed it to suit the current systems... ?

eth0_

Why would you want to bring back a clunky, bad quality system like analog?

Pataman

Great craic listening with the scanner at night. some sad cases out there. On second thoughts who needs a scanner to find that out, I have BOARDS.IE

dublin_apache

eth0_ wrote:

Why would you want to bring back a clunky, bad quality system like analog?

That's not what I ment.

I ment would it be possibile to have the 088 system again, as in working on GSM & 3G.

jesus_thats_gre

They could re-introduce the 088 prefix if they wanted.. Wont happen though..

spongebob

I heard that some geezers got their 088 numbers reactivated under portability rules this year.....running on 2G of course .

M

jesus_thats_gre

I am pretty sure this isn't the case..

Victor

Effectively all 088 numbers became 087 numbers, e.g.

088 XXX XXX would have become
087 YXXX XXX

LegacyUser

Quick question:

I registered my 088 ready-to-go phone yonks ago. Do I still "own" that number, and could I change my existing 087 phone to it.

Mossy Monk

Pataman wrote:

Great craic listening with the scanner at night. some sad cases out there

pot, kettle, black

jesus_thats_gre

Buckfast wrote:

Quick question:

I registered my 088 ready-to-go phone yonks ago. Do I still "own" that number, and could I change my existing 087 phone to it.

Nope..

seamus

All 088 subscribers were notified of the intention to shut down the network. Subscribers had two choices - port to the 087 equivalent of their number (if available), or simply lose their subscription when the network was shut down.
There was no need for compensation or appeasement, as apparently Eircell Vodafone were well within their rights to shut down the network and kick off any remaining subscribers (as long as they adhered to sufficient notice, etc).

Yep, my dad didn't change over until the last minute - he was offered a free Motorola T2288 if he moved to GSM.

We still have the old Moto A130 analogue phone but its basically just a paperweight now. Come to think of it, I never remember it lose coverage until the very end. The coverage on analogue was better than it is on GSM in these parts.

I wonder what prefix 3 will be assigned... 084 or something?? That will sound weird, but so did 085 when Meteor started out.

soiaf

3 (Hutchinson) have been allocated the 083 prefix

jesus_thats_gre

They were basically told to shut the network down..

rymus

ahh gawd.. now im going to get all nostalgic for my motorola 088 phone. first phone I ever had... those were the days.

LegacyUser

Not sure what model it is, but I still have my Motorola 'Flip Phone' beside me in my filing cabinet.

I remember it well ... 1994 ... battery took 15 hours to charge and gave about 1 hour talk-time or 3 hours standby time.

I just took the battery off it and it's heavier than the phone.

Ahhh, the good old days. What'd calls cost then anyhoo, around £1 a minute if memory serves me.

P.S. Checked with Skodafone and they have given away the old number.

rymus

80p on peak, 50p off peak iirc.. I remember I had loads of credit on my 088 phone because in those times you had to top up within a certain time and I couldnt make phone calls from home because the signal was so weak.

Those flip motorolas were the height of yuppie chic. I had one for a couple of days while my brick was being repaired. In fact, I think I know a few people that would still have their 1980's motorola brick phones (the ones that look like army field telephones); as carried by business men roaming the corridors of power.

SF1

soiaf wrote:

3 (Hutchinson) have been allocated the 083 prefix

i cant wait. so when is 3 coming out

jesus_thats_gre

eireman1916 wrote:

i cant wait. so when is 3 coming out

About 12 months time

SF1

jesus_thats_gre wrote:

About 12 months time

12 BLOODY MONTHS. I'ILL STAY WITH VOADFONE

billy the squid

God this thread is after putting years on me, I have my flip phone II still here I couldn't get rid of it in time so I still have it. It dont work though. dont know if the number is gone though, ah remember when mobile numbers were six digits beginning with the number 6.

byrnefm

One of my cousins either decided to go 'modern' at the time or simply liked the particular model, as up until the summer, she was using a Siemens C10 - single band phone! We couldn't work out at first why she couldn't get any Vodafone reception when it finally came to her town in Co Donegal this year - and then discovered that Vodafone only has an 1800MHz transmitter in that town... So after 5+ years, she finally had to upgrade