www.T-Mobile.ie ?

dmn

I know T-mobile have been looking to move into the Irish market in the past.
A friend of mine has told me that they might be looking to buy an Irish network - likely to be 3 Ireland.

Then this morning I noticed that www.tmobile.ie and www.t-mobile.ie are both active and redirect to the Tmobile International website.

Anyone know anything about these rumours?

Random

A friend of mine has told me

How would he know?

dmn

works for tmobile UK and it was mentioned by an area manager

drunkmonkey

why likely to be 3, t-mobile and 3 share masts in the UK....there more partners than anything...

one of meteors parents are in voluntary administration at the moment, they would seem like the obvious company to make an offer on...

t-mobile to buy meteor and then form a partnership with 3, it'll give 3 the 2G coverage it needs and t-mobile the 3G coverage it requires.....what u think?...

Tom Dunne

drunkmonkey wrote: »

what u think?...

Fine apart from the fact that Eircom have already bought Meteor.

AlmightyCushion

I think he knows that. Babcock and brown (who own eircom) went into administration a month or two back I believe.

Sully

I assume Eircom wont be effected?

AlmightyCushion

Sully wrote: »

I assume Eircom wont be effected?

No idea to be honest.

Richard

AlmightyCushion wrote: »

No idea to be honest.

Is T-mobile still owner by Deutsche Telekom? If so the Eircom business could be integrated there if it was up for sale too.

drunkmonkey

Richard wrote: »

Is T-mobile still owner by Deutsche Telekom? If so the Eircom business could be integrated there if it was up for sale too.

t-mobile is a subsidiary of Deutche Telekom, the t stands for Telekom..

I don't know can eircom sell off meteor, the government blocked the split of the company before. Hutch were pretty interested in Meteor, there owner Li Ka Shing has approched eircom. No comment from anybody after that. (january)
Eircom was bought in 2006 for €2.3billion, it then had a debt mountain of €4.3bn back them. (5th time in 10 years)
Eircom now has a debt mountain of €6 billion and Meteor has a valuation of €1bn, how much would you offfer for both?

the more i think about it, t-mobile to buy 3 dosen't make much sense.

Ah-Watch

It happened me twice that when I was testing two handsets with vodafone ie I rang vodafone customer care who then gave me a phone number to ring which was 087 but it went through to the TMOBILE voicemail of 087xxxxxxxx

This is back ages ago but was reminded of this by reading this thread. I dont know how/why I reached the T mobile answering service but it did

Mimikyu

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mk6705

drunkmonkey wrote: »

why likely to be 3, t-mobile and 3 share masts in the UK....there more partners than anything...

one of meteors parents are in voluntary administration at the moment, they would seem like the obvious company to make an offer on...

t-mobile to buy meteor and then form a partnership with 3, it'll give 3 the 2G coverage it needs and t-mobile the 3G coverage it requires.....what u think?...

So you're saying that:

• Reduce competition by combining two operators.
• Buy a 2G network for nothing other than backup coverage you already have, even though the objective of 3 is to build a 3G network covering 99.9% of Ireland anyway?
• and, all this while ignoring the fact Meteor have a 3G network.

Doesn't make sence to me.

Jonathan

Captain Morgan wrote: »

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IEDR run a pretty tight ship, and squatting is much harder with .ie domains.

AlmightyCushion

Adro947 wrote: »

So you're saying that:

• Reduce competition by combining two operators.
• Buy a 2G network for nothing other than backup coverage you already have, even though the objective of 3 is to build a 3G network covering 99.9% of Ireland anyway?
• and, all this while ignoring the fact Meteor have a 3G network.

Doesn't make sence to me.

When he says partners he means share masts or masts locations. The two companies would still compete for customers. Vodafone and 02 share masts and mast locations here. Also while meteor do have a 3g network, 3s would have much better coverage (pity they over sold the living crap out of it).

matrim

According to the domain registration on whois it expires on 31 January 2010 so they must have it from at least January this year.

Brian

Doesn't a business have to have an Irish address before they can legally register a .ie domain?

-goes off to whois-

brian-1000h:~ admin$ whois t-mobile.ie

% Rights restricted by copyright; http://www.domainregistry.ie/copyright.html
% Do not remove this notice

domain:      t-mobile.ie
descr:       Deutsche Telekom AG
descr:       BODY CORPORATE (LTD,PLC,COMPANY)
descr:       Corporate Name
admin-c:     ABM594-IEDR
tech-c:      ABM595-IEDR
renewal:     31-January-2010
status:      Active
nserver:     NS1.LOVELLSNAMES.ORG
nserver:     NS3.LOVELLSNAMES.ORG
nserver:     NS4.LOVELLSNAMES.ORG
source:      IEDR

person:      Marion Schoeberl
nic-hdl:     ABM594-IEDR
source:      IEDR

person:      Dietrich Meyer
nic-hdl:     ABM595-IEDR
source:      IEDR

Hmm.

Sully

TMobile isnt a registered business in Ireland from what I can see. They seem to have registered the domain based on information given to the IEDR stating how they have an irish connection to the domain (usually an Irish business but I assume in this case they said they had intentions of setting up in Ireland)

jimmii

Possiby start with a bid on the 900mhz licence? They might be temped to go for that and launch some dirt cheap options that sure would be interesting some of there sim only options in the uk are insane!

mk6705

jimmii wrote: »

Possiby start with a bid on the 900mhz licence? They might be temped to go for that and launch some dirt cheap options that sure would be interesting some of there sim only options in the uk are insane!

Which license is that? There are three GSM licenses (on the 900/1800 MHz bands) and four 3G licenses (on the 1900/2100 MHz bands).

Our man in Havana

jmccrohan wrote: »

IEDR run a pretty tight ship, and squatting is much harder with .ie domains.

It is still possible. For a small outlay of €20 any idiot can register a business name and then register the .ie domain. I don't believe the IEDR are that fussy once their ass is covered by the busines name cert.

Sully

Bond-007 wrote: »

It is still possible. For a small outlay of €20 any idiot can register a business name and then register the .ie domain. I don't believe the IEDR are that fussy once their ass is covered by the busines name cert.

Aye but its a lot more then just 20euro and you can expect a few weeks wait by the time its all sorted.

Our man in Havana

But squatting can be done and once someone complains the IEDR sends them to WIPO.

Cabaal

jmccrohan wrote: »

IEDR run a pretty tight ship, and squatting is much harder with .ie domains.

true but companys can still reg in Ireland, look at aol.ie its been reged for years but has not offered services in Ireland (still owned by America On-Line)