Smart Telecom
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| Private | |
| Industry | Telecom |
| Founded | 2000 |
| Headquarters | Dublin, Ireland |
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Area served
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Ireland |
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Key people
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Brendan Murtagh, John Riordan |
| Products | broadband, landline |
| Revenue |
 €45.6 million (2005) |
 -€19.436 million (2005) |
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Number of employees
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25 |
| Website | http://www.smarttelecom.ie/ |
Smart Telecom (AIM:SMR) is an Irish telecom operator that started as a phone card seller. It is also the third largest provider of cost-sensitive telecom services sector in Ireland, behind the incumbent operator Eircom and BT Ireland. It currently has an estimated 50,000 land-line customers and 18,000 broadband subscribers. Smart operates several services:
Backbone services are available to users in parts of Dublin, Cork, Dundalk, Limerick, Letterkenny, Galway, Sligo, Waterford, Wexford, Portlaoise, Mullingar, Carlow, Cavan, Drogheda, Killarney, Tralee and Clonmel.
At the end of Q 1, 2006 there were 322,000 broadband subscribers in Ireland, 35% of internet subscription. Broadband accounted for 19% of all internet subscriptions.
Smart was also a bidder for the Irish mobile operator Meteor following the decision of its parent company to sell all international mobile operators; however on July 21, 2005 it was announced Smart Telecom had withdrawn, leaving the company to be bought by Eircom, the largest telecoms operator in Ireland, and owner of the local loop throughout the entire country.
On November 18, 2005 Smart Mobile was offered the country's fourth 3G mobile phone network licence on November 16, 2005.Vodafone Ireland, O2 Ireland and 3 Ireland already had secured a 3G mobile phone network licence. Acceptance of the licence would require Smart Mobile to launch its services by April 30, 2007, with 33 percent demographic coverage by October 31, 2009 and 53 percent coverage by 2011.
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