Talk:Ireland/@comment-94.2.188.218-20150803171333/@comment-24682153-20150803181451

Well. The reason why we mention the old names of the operators as in old phones the Network IDs are linked to the old names and often not to the new ones.

But after a decade or so, it becomes useless. Nobody uses a phone so old for data. We don't write a history book about mobile providers :-)

Eircell was rebranded to Vodafone in 2001. Digiphone to O2 in 2006. Meteor has always been always called Meteor since it got a license in 1998. In 2005 it was purchased by Eircom, but kept its name. Eircom is mentioned in the articles. For Three or Vodafone it doesn't make sense to specify ownership. The recent merger of Three/O2 is highlighted in the text.

I don't exactly understand what you are missing.