Mobile Services
Mobile phones use the prefixes 083, 085, 086, 087 and 089. 088 was previously issued to the Eircell analogue service. This has subsequently been issued to Digiweb. While mobile numbers are portable between operators, all new numbers are issued in an operators own allocation - 083 for 3, 085 for Meteor, 086 for O2, 087 for Vodafone and 089 for Tesco/48. The full number must be dialled even if it has the same prefix as the caller's number this is due to Eircell and Esat Digifone allocating numbers starting with 0 within their prefix range (for example 087 0xxxxxx).
- 082 — Paging services (Eirpage)
- 083 — 3 Ireland
- 085 — Meteor / eircom Mobile (MVNO)
- 086 — O2 Ireland (formerly Esat Digifone)
- 087 — Vodafone Ireland (Eircell until 2002; part of state-owned Telecom Éireann until 1997)/Postphone — A mobile phone service provided by An Post/Justmobile (Now out of business since summer of 2011)
- 088 — Digiweb 4G mobile (prefix formerly used between 1985 and July 2001 by Eircell's analogue mobile phone service, using TACS).
- 089 — Tesco Ireland .
Note: Mobile Number Portability has been in operation since 2003. While a new connection to any network will take the prefix above, there is no guarantee that a number with one of those prefixes has remained on that network. In addition, a given network is not guaranteed to receive all of their prefix block. The numbers in each prefix are allocated in blocks of several thousand to the networks, as they require them, thus ComReg could in theory, allocate 083 numbers to Vodafone.
Read more about this topic: Telephone Numbers In The Republic Of Ireland
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