Which mobile phone service?

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Wolfgirl

I'm on Vodafone - I used to be on Meteor but I found their coverage to be patchy. It costs me less than 20 euro a month to use and I'm a textaholic and I don't have a landline. I'd def. recommend Vodafone,but only on the Pay-as-you-go option, not on a bill phone. I think they can be expensive if you choose the monthly billing option.

Laura

I use meteor. They are nice cheap and the customer care team are really friendly. Here's their website: http://www.meteor.ie/

Hope that helped!
Laura.
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reginaldstower

vodafone they have the best coverage in ireland

roisin007

The whole of Ireland is now pretty much covered for all mobile phone operators, the three main companies are Vodafone, O2 and Meteor - all offering similar deals. I'm with Vodafone and find that the coverage is excellent but a lot of my friends are with Meteor and they have no complaints either - sometimes it comes down to which phone handset you actually want to buy as each company has deals for different types of phone. The Carphone Warehouse stores will give you the best independent advice whenyou get here. Good luck with the study in Ireland - hope you have a great time while here.

is mise lisa

i'm on 02 and i find them really good. They always have good deals on phones and special offers. Coverage is great in most of the country as is vodafone. All my friends are switching to 02 though because of the special offers they have.
good luck

Viva La Eire!

Vodafone are the best. They have the best coverage and are pretty cheap.

I use them because no other provider has coverage in my area.

Good luck and enjoy Ireland!

Greenie

i have been moving back and forth from jersey to ireland my entire life i love verizon it is probably the easiest....O2 was the only company that would let me keep my number...i have found it the closest thing to verizon in ireland....you can find phones that use sim cards also but you have to make sure that your phone is compatible....usually if you stay within the same brand you are good....good luck with the move

Popcorn

Hey,

I will suggest you to get an Ireland Sim Card from www.RebelFone.com, they will deliver it to you before you leave US, so you can pass on your local Irish number to your contact here.. Sim Card comes Free, activate the same and start using it when you are in Ireland.. Local call rates are as low as $0.18/min & if you make calls to US from this its- $0.42/min .. Best part is you pay your bills in USD every month for the usage you had. Check out the link below ..

dollymix (now geeky for a month)

I use o2, the coverage can be a bit iffy at times, but I think that their deals on phones and text/talk packages are good eg â‚¬20 for free texts to all networks or â‚¬20 a month for free calls to 10 favourite o2 numbers.

Meteor are basically the same with the packages eg free texts and calls meteor to meteor for â‚¬20/â‚¬30 a month, I'm not sure. I don't think there coverage is to good though. Some friends have it and they don't like it.(and they have a cool mobile genie advertising them! :P)

I don't know much about Vodafone, but I believe the other answerer's in saying that they have good coverage.

Don't go for 3. Coverage is little to nothing. Very bad. A friend of mine recently switched from it, it was that bad. She bought a phone from it one week and couldn't use it because of coverage. I think she just went into a phone hack shop though to change to another network instead of buying another phone.

Oh I'm sure you know that one networks sim card won't work in anothers phone.

Good luck here in Ireland!

Sarah

I use Meteor.

They are cheaper than the others (in my opinion) and if you register before you go, and manually switch to 'T-Mobile' you can roam in the North and the UK without having to pay roaming charges to receive a call. You can also roam within Ireland on the Vodafone network where Meteor has no coverage and pay only Meteor rates for your call (eg in my house).

If you go with Meteor, you can save a fortune by getting a sim from another network and then porting your number to Meteor - they gave me a â‚¬40 bonus for doing that, plus a â‚¬10 bonus for registering my sim online, although I do believe other companies do offer similar incentives.

Also, bear in mind that Irish networks work on different frequencies to the US ones. Unless you have an American phone that is not locked to a specific network and is tri-band, you won't be able to use it here.

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