Based on overall performance in the market for the first nine months of 2003 Meteor Mobile is now Ireland's number 2 operator overall and is the number 1 prepay operator. Meteor added 52,815 new prepay subscribers or 41% of the total number of new prepay subscribers. Vodafone had a 40% share while 02 Ireland had just a 19% share. In terms of overall new subscribers, including both PostPay and PrePay customers, Meteor had a 31% market share in the first nine months of the year. 02 were well behind with 22% while Vodafone had 47%. These figures are based on official ComReg statistics for the first six months of the year and publicly released figures from Vodafone, 02 and Meteor for the third quarter.
