{"id":359289,"date":"2026-02-27T15:36:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-27T15:36:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/359289\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T15:36:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T15:36:08","slug":"vodafone-plans-satellite-to-phone-services-in-ireland-for-coverage-not-spots-and-storms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/359289\/","title":{"rendered":"Vodafone plans satellite-to-phone services in Ireland \u2013 for coverage \u2018not spots\u2019 and storms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">Mobile operator says it will be the first in Ireland to launch the service\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Sheila Kavanagh, director of networks, Vodafone Ireland. Photo: Naoise Culhane\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/260209_NCP4_001.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Sheila Kavanagh, director of networks, Vodafone Ireland. Photo: Naoise Culhane<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Vodafone is planning to launch satellite-based direct phone and video calls in Ireland.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Speaking to the Irish Independent, the company\u2019s director of networks, Sheila Kavanagh, said that while a launch date and marketing plan has not yet been set, the operator has already identified a rural testing site and aims to be the first mobile network in Ireland to launch the service \u2014 just as soon as there are enough satellites in place to maintain consistent service, and they are given the green light by the telecoms regulator, ComReg.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mobile operator says it will be the first in Ireland to launch the service Sheila Kavanagh, director of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":359290,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[73],"tags":[15807,79,18,1647,19,17,24320,51180],"class_list":["post-359289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-adrian-weckler","tag-business","tag-eire","tag-elon-musk","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-pat-kenny","tag-vodafone"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359289","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=359289"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359289\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/359290"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=359289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=359289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=359289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}